The camshaft orchestrates every intake and exhaust event in the engine, and a single worn lobe can kill power to an entire cylinder. Oil starvation during cold starts is responsible for a ...

The LS1 engine build continues as it's time to install one of the most important performance upgrades—the camshaft. This ...

Nothing determines the "personality" of an engine more than the camshaft. Think of the cam as a mechanical computer, calling the shots on when and how the valves open and close. That computer is ...

A cam phaser is a sprocket which adjusts the position of an engine’s camshaft in relation to its crankshaft and is tuned with a computer-controlled servo. Camshafts control the timing of engine intake ...

The pursuit of higher performance (greater than stock) is one of the many things that make the diesel scene as awesome as it is. Although experimenting with new parts concepts and technical theories ...

To fully grasp the magnitude of what could happen when an engine's crankshaft and camshaft sensors go haywire, we need to summarize the roles of those sensors during the motor's operation. The ...

Jeep's overhead-cam six, famously called the Tornado, was one of the first mass-produced overhead-cam engines built in the United States after World War II. As whiz-bang as that sounds, the engine ...

There's an almost infinite number of possible cam profiles. The higher up the food chain you go, the more important it becomes to match a cam's specific characteristics to your cylinder-head flow, ...