Loyal readers ofSuper Chevywill immediately recognize this 454 (aka BBC Big Hero VI) as the very same engine we plucked from a wrecking yard and plopped on the dyno. In Part 1, we stripped the Gen VI ...

Technology has had a positive effect on traditional Pontiac performance. Today's monster mills perform considerably better on the dragstrip than yesterday's race engines, but are often so reliable and ...

There are pros and cons for each of the four camshaft styles—see which one is most appropriate for your engine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some ...

The new darling of the camshaft world is the hydraulic-roller cam. GM made it fashionable back in the late ’80s when Chevy put hydraulic-roller cams in production Corvettes and ’87 Camaro engines. At ...

Picking the right valvetrain for your engine can be a daunting task. Solid flat tappet, hydraulic flat tappet, solid roller, hydraulic roller; these are the choices, made even more difficult due to ...

COMP Cams Explains the Pros and Cons of Solid, Hydraulic, Flat-Tappet, and Roller Cams, and the Advanced Technology that makes them all Work. With horsepower seemingly growing on trees these days, ...

The vast majority of gearheads fall into two categories when it comes to choosing a camshaft: those who go too big, low-end torque and driveability be damned; and those who go too small, ensuring good ...

Selecting the right cam for your performance street/strip or even full-race Chevy engine is difficult, especially if you don’t speak the lingo. Even before taking a look at things like cam lift, ...

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 ...

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 ...