A lot of people were celebrating when white smoke over the Vatican meant there was a new pope in town -– and that included plenty of gearheads with great ideas about what the new guy should use as his ...

As a certified shadetree motorcycle mechanic, I've seen some pretty wild field expedient repairs attempted by previous owners. Typically these are hack jobs so embarrassing — we're talking things like ...

Your car's internal combustion engine relies on a huge number of large, small, and oddly-shaped parts. One of the biggest and most important parts of your motor is the engine block or cylinder block, ...

Engines endure much abuse. Sometimes this torture results in damage to either the block or the heads--or both. The block can be very rare, such as a matching-number block for an LS6 Chevelle or the ...