One hundred was a lot of horsepower in 1914, even for an 8.0-liter engine in a low-production luxury car. Yet 100 was the figure claimed for the remarkable Stearns-Knight Six, of which at least 350 ...

The Willys-Knight, built by Willys-Overland of Toledo, Ohio, from 1914 to 1932 is remembered for its ultra-quiet Knight sleeve-valve engine. Although it was also used in European luxury cars and the ...

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I’m not sure if any engine built today will still be salvageable 100 years from now. Not to sound like a grump, but so much relies on computers that will surely be obsolete by then. And let’s not get ...

Time was when a valve job was done with some valve-grinding compound and a vacuum cup on a stick. But no more. Today's high performance engines require the same machining precision in the valves that ...

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