Chevrolet began using the double hump cylinder head design on its small block engines in 1962. While they weren't included on every Chevy with a small block V8, they were common enough to ensure a ...

Head gaskets are thin wafers of material that seal engine blocks to cylinder heads. They contain pressure from combustion, oil and coolant to keep each in its own lane.

A head gasket is a part between your cylinder heads and the block. It preserves compression and stops coolant and oil leaks into the engine's cylinders, ensuring proper engine functioning. However, ...

What Makes Chevy Double Hump Heads Special? Chevrolet began using the double hump cylinder head design on its small block engines in 1962. While they weren't included on every Chevy with a small ...

The 6.2 liter V8 LT1 engine is produced by General Motors for use in performance vehicles and sports cars. It is part of GM’s Gen V Small Block engine family and was first introduced in the C7 ...

Before leaving the engine block, use a thick motor oil, such as a 50W rating, and with your hands or a new, clean paint brush, coat the cylinder walls and deck of the block to prevent corrosion.

We'll be performing our testing on the Superflow flow bench at Auto Performance Engines, so the numbers you see are real-world flow numbers for popular Mopar big-block cylinder heads.

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1995), pp. 2430-2436 (7 pages) A single-cylinder, two-valve engine was operated with independent cooling circuits for the engine block and ...

Big-block (Mark IV) engines originally configured for low and medium performance were fitted with cylinder heads having oval-shaped intake ports; high-performance big-blocks derived increased ...

Ever wonder about the science of cylinder head, engine block and intake manifold design and manufacturing; then check out this article as we ask Jeff Brotherton of Brodix his insight in this area ...

In Tonawanda, N.Y., General Motors ‘ factory temporarily installs a bolt with an embedded passive RFID tag on every cylinder head and engine block that GM uses to make its Gen 5 six- and ...