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 ...

It's no secret that adding duration and valve lift helps make power. But besides changing camshafts, there is another way to modify valve events-change the rocker-arm ratio. Ford V-8 rocker ratios-at ...