Ford used pushrod V8 designs for many years before phasing them out in favor of Modular engines. Here are the differences ...

Discover the main differences between Ford's Godzilla and Megazilla V8 engines, including their power, applications, and ...

Less than 70k miles in, a Ford Godzilla V8 shows rust, scored bores, and a ruined cam, highlighting known issues with the modern pushrod design. Yet reports of spark plug and lifter failures have ...

In the valvetrain of your typical pushrod engine, the rocker arm is a critical component that also is an excellent tuning device. To properly tune with rocker arms, though, you need to understand how ...

Fire up a fourth-gen Ford Mustang GT and you'll hear one of two distinctly different V8 soundtracks, depending on when it rolled off the assembly line. From 1994 through 1995, that rumble came from ...

The rocker arm employs the use of a fulcrum or pivot to increase the cam lift by a given ratio. That increase in lift is the result of moving the pushrod pivot point closer to the fulcrum. That ...

Pushrods may be passe' for Corvettes, as I recently suggested in an earlier Automotive DesignLine Blog post, but they're still setting records. A Chinese-made Dayun motorcycle recently set a speed ...