Engine builders explain how camshaft specs relate to horsepower targets, airflow, and rpm in LS, Coyote, Hemi, and ...

This overlooked engine part controls everything, and most drivers never think about it.

We know that the LS engine family responds well to changes in cam timing and that, like every engine ever made, the LS also responds favorably to boost. The question isn't whether you can get power ...

The Chevrolet Corvette is the last true sports car to use a pushrod V8, and you might not think that's a good thing. After all, overhead-cam engines have been the standard for decades at this point, ...

An engine builder ranks the classic 5.0-liter Ford Racing letter cams. His top choice helped create an 11-second Fox combo.

An epidemic of cam failures has plagued owners of older cars recently. That part of the story is well established. The controversial part concerns the causes for the rash of prematurely worn camshaft ...

It's appropriate, we think, that a camshaft has lobes, since this relatively simple device is so often called the brains of an engine. And indeed, a camshaft does direct several engine functions in a ...