When it comes to powering that truck project that you've been working on, there are basically three options: buying a crate engine, buying a junkyard motor, or building an engine from scratch. The ...

Internal combustion engines are commonly referred to by their displacements whether its old-school cubic inches or more modern CC and liter nomenclature. If you love cars, you've no doubt heard of the ...

Hang around an American car meet long enough, and you will hear the phrase stroker, or stroked engine mentioned, followed by some bragging about torque and such - most often with regard to a Ford ...

The difference between a stroker engine and a regular engine lies primarily in the choice of crankshaft. In the case of the 383-cubic inch stroker, engine builders would modify crankshafts designed ...

Making more power boils down to how much energy we can glean from the compressed air/fuel mix. The more volume we can huff into the chamber, the more power our engine is going to produce. We compress ...

Some people just want their vehicles to be a little different than the norm. It may be for looks, or it may be that people simply want to go faster. There are others who want the truck to look cool ...

A contributor to CarBuzz since April 2025, Ben also was a finalist in The Intercooler Young Writer Compition in 2021, has done a placement with AutoCar, and runs his own independant automotive blog.