The trick to building a budget street engine is to use as many production-based parts as possible. Original-equipment (OE) parts are generally well engineered, durable, and in some cases less ...

When Chet Herbert introduced roller tappet camshafts to racing in 1950, he established an upper echelon of performance hardware that continues to carry that hard-core mystique. The roller tappet ...

Like everything else in life, our quest for performance requires that we accept the good with the bad. Case in point: building or improving the performance of your small-block Chevy. The good side of ...

With the availability and efficiency of roller camshafts it’s a no-brainer to use a hydraulic roller setup even on the simplest of engine combinations. The roller lifters take a lot of load off of the ...