The carefully flaked edge on a stone axe, the patterned blade of a hand-forged sword, the dappled bare steel of prewar bodywork. Mankind is a tool-making species, though the complexity of the tools we ...

When it comes to hot rods, bench racing - never seems to stray very i far from engines. Power is where hot rodding will always be. When it comes right down to it, the only way to learn how to build ...

Whether it is a competitive sport, a hobby, an association, or any countless number of things, chances are high there’s an organization, and typically a physical place of honor, better known as a Hall ...

Considered today to be one of America's best engine builders, Noonan Race Engineering was pioneered by Jamie Noonan. Jamie's passion for racing began at an early age in Australia, likely in large part ...

Ed Pink, known throughout racing as The Old Master, whose engines powered racers from Tony Stewart, Don Prudhomme, Ed “The Ace” McCulloch, Kasey Kahne, and Eddie Cheever to victories in Indianapolis, ...

It's fair to assume that if you're currently building a high-performance engine, it's because you've pushed your engine to its limits, and the time has come for a rebuild. There isn't a universal set ...

It’s fair to assume that if you’re currently in the stages of building a high-performance engine, you’ve already pushed your engine to its limits or plan to in the near future. To accommodate your ...

It's a big week at the Hendrick Motorsports campus in Concord, N.C., and not just because Talladega is coming up. In addition to his NASCAR Sprint Cup team, Rick Hendrick owns 87 automobile ...

Now more than at any time in history, engines are incredibly complex and complicated. At the same time, modern engineering has enabled them to become more reliable too. But which automotive ...