Liters, cc’s and—my favorite—cubic inches are all terms you’ll hear when folks talk about engines. While these terms are all based on different increments of measurement, they’re all used to describe ...

The compression ratio isn’t just a number: it’s one of the greatest determining factors in engine building. Compression ratio determines the type of fuel, how much boost, and has a significant ...

You'd think that the pistons listed for a 10.5:1 compression ratio would actually give you 10.5:1. But it's usually not that simple. Perhaps that's why so many four-wheelers have a foggy or incomplete ...

Any true car enthusiast will be able to tell you all about their engine, and one of the first points they’ll raise is how big it is, usually using a measurement that sounds suspiciously like a corn ...

Mopar engines were referred to as "wedge" engines because they used wedge-shaped combustion chambers; this was different from Chrysler's Hemi big-block engines, which were referred to as "Hemi" (as in ...

This monstrous motor clocks in at over 10.3 liters of displacement and makes more than 1,000 horsepower on pump gas without a turbo or nitrous. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the ...

Any time you push the boundaries of engine output, you know there will need to be some dyno testing, and that's exactly the case here. We had some boundaries to work within, so that the end result was ...

Sonny Leonard's Godfather big block engine broke through supposed barriers on its way to 1,005 cubic inches and 2,150 ...