In order to make any kind of decision, you have to have the right information. The more you know about a subject, the more intelligent your decision will become. Since a camshaft is certainly one of ...

When you buy a camshaft out of the box these days, you can be reasonably certain it will be close to where you need to be in terms of the grind. Much of that is because of advances in technology ...

Consider the camshaft. On the one hand, it's a simple thing, a stick with bumps on it. It sits above the crankshaft, linked to it by a timing chain, and spins at half the crankshaft's speed. The ...

In the early days of high- performance engine building, hot rodders discovered that when they squeezed the intake and the exhaust lobes closer together, the engine responded with more power. That ...

Any gearhead worth his or her salt knows that whether it's a SOHC, DOHC, or OHV engine, the camshaft is considered the brain of a four-cycle internal combustion power plant. The camshaft's profile ...

The camshaft orchestrates every intake and exhaust event in the engine, and a single worn lobe can kill power to an entire cylinder. Oil starvation during cold starts is responsible for a ...

When the function of a camshaft(s) is explained to non-mechanically-inclined types, it's sometimes referred to as the "brain" of an engine. Most engines will live their entire lives with the stock cam ...