The era of cheap high-revving engines that once screamed up and down America's highways has largely faded as fuel economy and emissions regulations have forced automakers to rethink how modern cars ...
It's not unusual for modern performance cars to make over 200 hp/liter, with ultra-exclusive supercars even breaching the 300 hp/liter mark. Of course, these figures are achieved by forcing massive ...
Those loyal readers who follow Super Chevy will remember our two-part Legendary Small-Blocks dyno series. It included such great names as the L76, the LT-1 and the Z/28's 302. We followed up part one ...
The Ferrari 430 Scuderia features the naturally aspirated F136E V8 producing a high-revving engine note at 8,500 RPM. This ...
There is no such thing as a torque motor. Any engine that has torque has horsepower. Any engine that produces 300 lbs.-ft. of torque at 3000 rpm has 171 hp at that engine speed.Anyengine—long stroke, ...
When it is powering a race car--with all the rumbling, vibrations,beating, and banging going on--it can sometimes be easy to forget thatthe engine is a precision piece of equipment. In the hands of ...
(iSeeCars) — The automotive world has a language all its own, including a wide array of acronyms representing a similarly wide array of technical features and characterizations. In the case of “RPM”, ...