A connecting rod is the mechanical link between the piston and the crankshaft. By design, connecting rods convert vertical motion into rotary motion, eventually yielding torque at the flywheel. By ...

Part of the exploding connecting rod cap got lodged between the block and crank. Certain parts of an engine shouldn’t be visible from the outside. If they are, something went wrong. It’s often not ...

Some of you who rebuild engines already know this, but even if you don’t build engines, it never hurts to “know more than you can use.” In a perfect world, bolt manufacturers would prefer that nuts ...

Now that we've had a while to mull it over, the '87 L98 Corvette enginemakes good sense for our Shark Attack Corvette. While we could haverebuilt the original 350 engine, the old-style small-block ...

For many decades now, a myth has spread across the motoring community that, in a pinch, you can use a leather belt as a connecting rod bearing. To test the validity of this claim, our favorite Russian ...

With the proliferation of crate engine assemblies and the cultural groupthink surrounding Chevy components, the selection of specific reciprocating parts has become almost an afterthought. Building a ...