Our previous two adventures with the Demon Low-Buck 454 were plenty successful. Part one demonstrated that the 400hp rating of the $2,650 Demon big-block was (if anything) a tad stingy, as the ...

Jimmy Dinsmore is a nationally syndicated automotive journalist based in Cincinnati, Ohio, known for his consumer-focused "Driver's Side" column. For over a decade, his insightful car reviews have ...

What if you could draw energy from the night sky without effort? That's the question that researchers at the University of California, Davis are trying to answer with a new engine that generates power ...

One of the most powerful military aircraft ever built achieved 60,000 horsepower, but aviation had to start somewhere. As mind-blowing as tens of thousands of horsepower sounds, can you imagine a ...

Turbocharged Engine: At low engine speeds, the turbo may not spin fast enough. This delay is known as turbo lag.

A dyno test showed dangerously low oil levels can produce a 10 percent horsepower bump in an LS V8—for one run, at least. It’s Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, and do I have an offer for you! No, it’s not ...

Most people understand that motor oil is a vital component for the internal combustion engines that power most of our cars. Not only does oil act as a lubricant, allowing internal moving parts to ...

Engineers have built a modern Stirling engine that quietly turns the cold of outer space into steady mechanical power, using the night sky as a heat sink instead of a fuel tank. By radiating heat away ...

V8 fans often argue about soundtracks and spec sheets, but the character of a V8 starts deep in the block with the crankshaft. Whether an engine uses a cross-plane or flat-plane crank changes the way ...