"Even though he has decades of experience building race-wining engines at every level, engine builder Keith Dorton of Automotive Specialists says he still works closely with the camshaft manufactures ...

There's an almost infinite number of possible cam profiles. The higher up the food chain you go, the more important it becomes to match a cam's specific characteristics to your cylinder-head flow, ...

When the function of a camshaft(s) is explained to non-mechanically-inclined types, it's sometimes referred to as the "brain" of an engine. Most engines will live their entire lives with the stock cam ...

Like most things we're not familiar with, many look at degreeing a camshaft as some sort of black magic voodoo that only the most expensive of engine builders in brightly lit "clean rooms" know how to ...

The pursuit of higher performance (greater than stock) is one of the many things that make the diesel scene as awesome as it is. Although experimenting with new parts concepts and technical theories ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Camshafts are simple devices, but important ones. Modern engines can have one or more intake and exhaust valves, and it's the ...

A cam phaser is a sprocket which adjusts the position of an engine’s camshaft in relation to its crankshaft and is tuned with a computer-controlled servo. Camshafts control the timing of engine intake ...

This is a category that is pretty rapidly going away. You'll be hard-pressed to find an overhead valve — also known as a pushrod — engine in anything outside of a General Motors LS/LT V8 or one of ...