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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the early 1990s the Gen II LT1 and LT4 engines powered GM's hottest performance cars, but GM read the tea leaves and knew that this platform would not be able to get them where they would ...