Meet the Birotary, a crazy new and complicated engine that has three cylinders arranged like a star, a rotating block, a ...

The mind-bending world of birotary engines - a hybrid of piston and rotary technology that could revolutionize aviation. But ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

We're out for torque, and nothing serves it up like huge cubes and a big arm. Stroking delivers both. Common Chevy 383 and Ford 347 combos have brought strokers to the masses, but there can be more ...

This 427ci sleeper is a good reason why you don’t judge an engine by the size of its block. The art of deception plays a significant role in the hot rod world. Although most enthusiasts are ...

Chevrolet is known for producing a lineup of powerful small block Chevy crate engines. However, the biggest Chevy crate engines include big block varieties as well. Chevrolet's largest displacement ...

The Chrysler Corporation manufactured the last of its big block engines, the B-coded 400-cubic-inch V8, in the summer of 1978. The 400's disappearance ended a long run of Chrysler B-code engines that ...

Hot rodders played with blocks as kids, and still play with them as adults. This vast level of experience notwithstanding, enthusiasts often insist on monkeying around with production blocks. They ...