I’ve never had a bad experience with a MachineArt Moto product. And the new X-Head DOHC cylinder head guards keep that record intact. Designed for the BMW R1200RT engine, they add virtually nothing in ...

Hot-rodders share a common denominator, irrespective of brand loyalty: get from A to B as fast and as inexpensively as possible. Within the scope of the engine, that means focusing primarily on the ...

Cylinder head porting is one of those garage mods that lives somewhere between speed-shop legend and flow-bench science. Also referred to as port and polish, the idea is simple: Open up the intake and ...

Without question, cylinder-head porting is a science. The act of removing metal from the intake and exhaust ports to increase airflow has been used for decades, and in most cases, a skilled head ...

When it comes to old-school stock car racers and stock cylinder heads, Chevrolet's long-running "double hump" cylinder heads have always been the gold standard. They are among the best stock heads ...

Horse Sense:With the Z head, Ford Racing Performance Parts has come full circle. Back in the early 5.0 days, its first cylinder head was a streetable-but not emissions-legal-offering called the J302.

That's the rule of classic Triumphs (ed note: classic anything). No matter what part of the car you are working on, there will always be one nut, one bolt or one stud that refuses to budge. Or one of ...