A small gap with big importance in the performance and health of an engine - here's everything you need to know.

Choosing the right valve spring for your engine is essential to ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and longevity. Valve springs are often overlooked, but they play a crucial role in ...

Over 4,000 Hyundai Palisades from the 2024 model year are subject to a new recall due to faulty valve springs that could potentially break. While only one percent of the recall population is likely ...

Kia's largest internal combustion-engined crossover has been hit with a safety recall for a problem that increases the risk of a fire. According to Kia America, the V6 engine's valve springs may have ...

For mild street engines, stock valve springs are more than adequate. But if you've screwed in a big bumpstick for strip-banging or banzai runnin', then pay attention. Our plan was simple: Install a ...

To many people Smokey is a living legend. His efforts in Grand National racing (from the late '40s through the late '60s) have produced a string of winning race cars and commanding pole speeds that ...

Back in September 2020, GM quietly admitted that small-block V8s suffer from “possible broken valve springs.” According to a technical service bulletin from the biggest of the Big Three in Detroit, ...

Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...