Maserati Once Built A Six-Valve-Per-Cylinder Engine (And Quickly Learned Why Nobody Else Did)

During the 1980s, Maserati experimented with a clever, 36-valve V6 gasoline engine, but for various reasons, the idea never ...
Hot Rod

Your Engine's Valves

Time was when a valve job was done with some valve-grinding compound and a vacuum cup on a stick. But no more. Today's high performance engines require the same machining precision in the valves that ...
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Inside Corvette’s New Four-Valve, Four-Cam, All-Aluminum V8

Chevrolet's all-new 350-cubic-inch, aluminum Corvette V8 engine may be thought of as the first and only domestically produced racing engine designed for street use. With four cams, 32 valves, two ...
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Where Are All The Camless Engines?

Electric cars are all the rage lately, but let’s not forget about the old standby – internal combustion. The modern internal combustion engine is a marvel of engineering. Today’s engines and ...