One damaged cylinder head on a V6 or V8 raises a costly question. Here's what to check before you or your mechanic decide how to tackle the repair.

Choosing cylinder heads for your small-block is easy, right? All you have to do is look for the one that offers the most flow. Well, truth be told, it really isn't as easy as all that, and that's a ...

Hot-rodders share a common denominator, irrespective of brand loyalty: get from A to B as fast and as inexpensively as possible. Within the scope of the engine, that means focusing primarily on the ...

While looking around on modified.com recently, I noticed a post on the site's forum asking what cylinder head porting and polishing is. The person who posted it apologized for asking what he felt was ...

If you look at a performance engine, it likely has aluminum cylinder heads, but does that give it more horsepower? Well, it's ...

More than 20 years after the first Gen III LS1 V8 rolled off the assembly line for the 1997 Corvette, it seems there are LS cylinder heads everywhere, and even more stories that have tested and ...

We almost destroyed one of these Buick 225 Dauntless cylinder heads trying to skip a step on the surfacing machine, leaving ...

Our mechanic takes us through the cylinder head and valve train and continues his explanation of how engines really work. For an engine to work, a fresh mixture of air and gas has to be able to enter ...

The cylinder head gasket provides a seal between the engine block and the head that caps the cylinders. The gasket not only contains the pressure of controlled explosions within the cylinders but also ...