Camshafts are simple devices, but important ones. Modern engines can have one or more intake and exhaust valves, and it's the camshaft's job to open valves precisely as the engine runs, supplying the ...

Time was when a valve job was done with some valve-grinding compound and a vacuum cup on a stick. But no more. Today's high performance engines require the same machining precision in the valves that ...

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 ...

It means that the valves, which open and close to let the air-fuel mixture in and out of the cylinders, are above the camshaft, which is in the engine block. The camshaft activates pushrods that move ...

General Motors’ all-new 3.9L V6 has been honored with a Breakthrough Technology award by Popular Mechanics for its innovative use of variable valve timing in an overhead valve engine. For ages GM has ...

It seems, for the modern American production car. that the 'L' head engine is a thing of the past. Present design trends indicate that the few remaining flathead engines now in production will be ...

Contemplating the advantages of the pushrod-actuated overhead valve engine design in what appears to be the twilight of internal combustion might sound as anachronistic as a quick look at the value of ...