Daud Gonzalez is a lifelong car enthusiast and automotive writer with a specialty in modified and race-ready rides. He spends most of his time modifying his cars and ruining them in the process. He is ...

The tragedy of the Corvair is that by the time Ralph Nader’s “Unsafe At Any Speed” book hit the shelves in late 1965, Chevy had already introduced a second-generation version of its rear-engined ...

Over the past several days, we watched a modest looking storm hop over the top of New Zealand from the Tasman Sea to the Southwest Pacific. This system then stalled for a moment just to the east of ...

With the availability and efficiency of roller camshafts it’s a no-brainer to use a hydraulic roller setup even on the simplest of engine combinations. The roller lifters take a lot of load off of the ...

Hydraulic roller cams have plenty going for them, including power, reliability, and reduced friction. Heck, even the OEMs have embraced the benefits of hydraulic roller cams. Often thought of as the ...

Good ideas have a habit of not always working exactly as they should. We assembled a 0.040-over 350 small-block Chevy in the Jan. '14 issue that we called the Quick Draw .357. It was intended to ...

A solid roller camshaft is a great way to improve the power your engine produces, and if your Mopar is equipped with a big-block or Hemi, a roller cam can be installed without much in the way of ...