Pushrod engines may not be as popular as they used to be, but to paraphrase the old Mark Twain misquote, "The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated." In fact, GM recently announced it was ...

What we refer to today as the LS family of engines usually refers to the third and fourth generations of Chevrolet’s small-block V8. But to understand the relevance of these engines, and what makes ...

Ford pushrod V8s served many a driver for decades in a veritable buffet of displacements from 1952 through 2001 (until Ford brought them back for the 7.3-liter Godzilla in 2020). In the early 1990s, ...

Ford fans do not argue about much more fiercely than they do about pushrod versus modular V8s, because that split defines not just different engines but different eras of Mustang and truck performance ...

General Motors has filed a new patent that offers a look at how the company may be rethinking cylinder deactivation for its next generation of pushrod engines. The application, published by the U.S.

When you think about it, everything in the valvetrain between the camshaft and the valve is little more than a high-tech telephone line. All the parts and pieces-the springs, the retainers, the ...

Correctly viewed, a pushrod engine's valvetrain assembly stands at the gateway of improved power. It is not a collection of components only intended to time and provide the correct valve motion.