Without getting into a long-winded dissertation about torque, we're going to suggest that you dig through your old copies of HOT ROD Magazine and familiarize yourself with the relationship between ...

Readers of this series will discover new thoughts and ample reinforcements for building consistent, powerful, and competitive Saturday-night engines. Jencks lays the hard-core foundation and McFarland ...

You almost certainly know the horsepower rating or displacement of your boat’s engine. But some marine-engine manufacturers have begun marketing torque over horsepower. In a break from standard ...

As engine makers transition to lower emissions, they are adopting varying approaches on horsepower and displacement. One trend, however, is better torque curves that often help produce more peak ...

Jeep's overhead-cam six, famously called the Tornado, was one of the first mass-produced overhead-cam engines built in the United States after World War II. As whiz-bang as that sounds, the engine ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

It's easy to get wrapped up in all the excitement of big horsepower numbers. The other magazines do it all the time. In fact, they chastise us for doing stories on "wimpy" motors that barely make 400 ...

Everyone and their mothers know a car’s top two performance metrics are horsepower and torque. They’re littered across every car’s spec sheet, plastered multiple times in its reviews, and bolded and ...