The typical four-stroke engine is made up of hundreds of parts. These parts are all designed and engineered to work together to make a prescribed amount of power, torque, engine longevity, and other ...

Pushrods convert the vertical motion of the lifter from the camshaft lobe into valve movement. A V8 engine takes advantage of that by centrally locating a single camshaft in the middle of the engine ...

Since a Pontiac V-8 is a pushrod engine (instead of being an overhead cam design), it afforded us the opportunity to explore a different rocker-arm ratio and determine its impact on power. As built, ...

The debate over the optimum rocker arm ratio to use has dragged on probably since the invention of the pushrod V-8. Even though Chevrolet made the decision easy for us when it engineered the original ...