If you are an aggressively jaded LS engine enthusiast, this is probably not ground-breaking or exciting information. But despite inroads by the LS family, the small-block Chevy lovers of the world are ...

Automakers have shifted from iron to aluminum engine blocks to reduce weight, improve fuel economy, and meet modern-day ...

Somewhere, a heavy-set lady is singing a sad song about Ford's casting plant in Brook Park. That's because the curtain apparently is coming down on the 57-year-old, 1.6 million-square-foot plant that ...

At the dawn of the musclecar era, Chrysler engineers were pulling their hair out, replacing hefty iron parts with the svelte aluminum alternatives we've all come to know and love. From alternator ...

At the dawn of the musclecar era, Chrysler engineers were pulling their hair out, replacing hefty iron parts with the svelte aluminum alternatives we've all come to know and love. From alternator ...

Horse Sense:A non-Siamese block has water passages in between the cylinder bores. The more rigid Siamese block has nothing but solid metal between the bores. Lately, the midnight oil has been burning ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era. At 454 cubic ...

BROOK PARK, Ohio -- Ford Motor Co. this month will begin the gradual process of shutting down its Brook Park casting plant by the end of this year, union officials said, reducing the work force by an ...

Researchers at the North American Die Casting Assoc. (NADCA), Wheeling, Ill., are developing a die-casting material and process that improves mechanical properties of aluminum and magnesium alloys and ...