Back in the dark ages—known to some as the '80s—it took twice as much effort to make half as much horsepower. The payoff for turning down the journals on a 400 Chevy crank, dropping it in a 350 block, ...

At a Tier One automotive engine plant, cylinder heads are marked immediately after casting with a dot-peen 2D matrix-style barcode for traceability. Locating those codes on each casting in a ...

At the core of every high-caliber race engine are mega-cfm heads that make the power and a rugged block that holds it all together. These are arguably the two most critical components in terms of ...

Alabama governor Kay Ivey and other elected officials joined Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama management and staff to celebrate the 'grand opening' of HMMA's new cylinder head machining plant. The ...

Precision meets speed as a brand‑new hydraulic cylinder head is machined in record time. What tools and techniques make this ...

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 ...

Audi is adding flexible manufacturing to its engine plant here to cope with variable demand. Audi is paying up to 30 percent more for production equipment that lasts longer and lets it adjust faster. ...