The head gasket manages the oil and coolant flow by sealing the engine block and cylinder head, ensuring that both fluids are not entering or dripping into the combustion chamber as the engine ...

GM’s factory skunkworks turned out this Chevy Vega with a well-engineered all-aluminum small-block in 1972. It didn’t make it ...

In particular, there's a lot of tension between the cylinder head and the engine block, especially in diesel motors. The head ...

It sure is. With a cast epoxy cylinder head, this engine will run for just long enough for a proof of concept. This experiment began by casting a single monolithic block of JB Weld that’s a bit ...

The cylinder head gasket provides a seal between the engine block and the head that caps the cylinders. The gasket not only contains the pressure of controlled explosions within the cylinders but ...

Once the valve-spring pressure is checked, the cylinder head is tagged and set on a shelf to await transport to the engine block. At another station, the crankshaft is balanced. Even a slight ...