The internal combustion engine, despite being a century-and-a-half old, is still an impressive marvel of engineering. There are several variations of engine design that have been experimented with ...

OHV stands for overhead valve, and these types of powerplants can also be called pushrod engines. OHV engines have the intake and exhaust valves located above the camshaft, which is in the engine ...

The Ford flathead V-8 engine changed hot-rodding forever. When introduced in 1932, the 221ci engine put out only 65 bhp, and even at the end of its production life in 1953 the larger Ford 239ci ...

Some automakers are famous for specific cars, others for innovating when the world seemed stuck in the mud. Some, like Volvo, are famous for safety, but some fly under the radar, their greatest ...

In 1932, Henry Ford, the acknowledged all-time master of automotive mass production, dealt his competitors a severe blow and elevated the standard of middle-class transportation by introducing his new ...

This is a category that is pretty rapidly going away. You'll be hard-pressed to find an overhead valve — also known as a pushrod — engine in anything outside of a General Motors LS/LT V8 or one of ...

Though V8s had been mass-produced since 1915, Cadillac's 1949 331-ci (5.4-liter) OHV was a tremendous leap forward that set the standard for the next fifty years. One of the most popular ...

The Ford Flathead V8 was the first mass-market V8 and the starting point for uniquely American performance. What's interesting about it is exactly what made it possible—simple and cheap to build—is ...

You can make an argument with spreadsheets and dyno charts. Or you can look at the odometers, the race slips, the junkyard swap bays, and the sheer number of lives touched by one humble, hard-working ...