Engines (General):
Engine Tech 101: How Displacement Per Cylinder Affects Torque and Horsepower Paul N
V8 Engine Crankshafts and Firing Orders: Good Vibrations VinceC
GM Engines:
The Legendary Buick Nailhead V8 And The Possible Source Of Its Unusual Valve Arrangement Paul N
The OHC V12 Engine That Cadillac Almost Built In The Sixties Paul N
1957 Chevrolet Fuel-Injected 283 V8: Ahead Of Its Time and the Competition Paul N
The “W” 348 Engine: First Of A Long Line Of Big-Block Chevy V8s Paul N
The Quickest And Slowest Chevy Turbo-Thrift Sixes Paul N
The Stillborn Corvair Gen2 Modular Engine: From Two to Twelve Cylinders Paul N
The 20 mpg 400 Cubic Inch 1967 Olds Cutlass Turnpike Cruiser Paul N
The Birth of the GM/EMD two-stroke Diesel Engine Paul N
1975-1979 Cadillac Electronic Fuel Injection: GM’s (Gladly) Forgotten Fuelie: A GM Deadly Sin? VinceC
Oldsmobile Diesel V8 – GM’s Deadly Sin #34: Premature Injeculation Paul N
The Chevrolet 5.7L LT5 DOHC V8: A British Heart For An American Icon VinceC
Ford Engines:
The Small Ford Flathead V8 (V8-60) Part 1: The Pre-War Years Part2: The Post-War European Fords Part 3: The Simca Years Tatra87
Lincoln’s Two-Barrel Carb MEL 430 Engine: Taming The Thirsty Beast Paul N
The Ford FE Series V8 Engine Jason Shafer
The Ford 335 Series V8 Engines: It Could Have Been A Contender, Part 1 Part 2 VinceC
The Ford 3.0 Liter “Vulcan” V6 Edward Snitkoff
The Ford 4.6 Liter V8 Jason Shafer
Chrysler Engines:
Diesel Chrysler Slant-Sixes, In-House And Otherwise Daniel Stern
Other American Engines:
1903 Premier: The First OHC Hemi Head Engine And The Search For the Hemi’s True Father Paul N
1959-1963 Checker Continental OHV 226 Six: The Only Extinct Post-War Engine? Paul N
The Curious F-Head Engine Paul N
Big Cummins Diesels Come To The Indianapolis 500 Paul N
The Studebaker V8 Engine: Punching Below Its Weight Paul N
The Atkinson (And Miller Cycle) Engines: Not Exactly What They Started Out To Be Paul N
The Little Engines That Could (series)
The Little Engines That Could, Part 1: 1941-42 Ford 30 HP Four Cylinder Truck Engine Jason Shafer
The Little Engines That Could, Part 2: How 170 Cu. In. Of Dodge Rammed A Challenge By VW Jason Shafer
The Little Engines That Could, Part 3: A Fuselage Dodge Rated For Thirty Degree Performance Jason Shafer
The Little Engines That Could, Part 4: Six Minus Two Equals Roughly Unpopular (Chevrolet) Jason Shafer
The Little Engines That Could, Part 5: Mercury Died By A Thousand Cuts; Here Are Six Of Them Jason Shafer
European/Asian Engines:
Alfa Romeo Twin Cam Four: A Pioneer, And As Beautiful As The Cars It Powered Paul N
Audi’s EA827 Engine: The Inline Four That Could! MNC
Honda Civic: The CVCC In The Words Of Honda Engineers Rich Baron
Soichiro Honda Spanks GM CEO Daniel Stern
The Last Two New Air-Cooled Car Engines (Honda 1300/Citroen GS) Allan Lacki
Three Pot Stew: America’s Brief Fling With The Three-Cylinder Supermini Jeff Nelson
The World’s Largest IC Engine: A Walk Through The Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C Marine Engine Paul N
Transmissions:
Planetary (Not Interstellar) Overdrive (1934-72) Paul N
Two-Speed Automatics vs. Three-Speed Manuals: When 2 = 3, More Or Less Paul N
Powerglide: A GM’s Greatest Hit Or Deadly Sin? Paul N
From Powerglide To 4-Speed – The History Of Transmissions On Early Corvettes VinceC
GM’s 8-Speed Hydra-Matic and 21-Speed Twin Hydra-Matic For Big Trucks: Complex Dead End Paul N
1959-63 Two-Speed Ford-O-Matic: Ford Builds A Powerglide Paul N
Chevrolet’s Torque Drive: A Dumber Powerglide Paul N
Ford AOD: An In-Depth Look At Its Design & Function – Lugging Its Way to Higher Fuel Efficiency VinceC
Ford’s Torque-Drive Copy-Cat 1970 Maverick Semi-Automatic Transmission Paul N
Lincoln’s Liquamatic Drive: Failure To Upshift JP Cavanaugh
The Mysterious Appearance Of Floor Shift For 1961-1964 Chrysler 3-Speed Manual Transmissions Paul N
The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Chrysler Pushbutton Automatic: A Government Conspiracy? JP Cavanaugh
Factory Four Speed Transmission Behind A Slant Six? Yup, For A Couple Of Years, Anyway Paul N
Studebaker’s Automatic Drive: Advanced, Efficient, But Too Expensive In The End Paul N
The Toyota 5 Speed Transmission Takes Over the World Dave Skinner
Air Conditioning & Heating:
Cold Comfort: History of Automotive Air Conditioning, Part 1 – Pre-World War II Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: History of Automotive Air Conditioning, Part 2 – The Aftermarket Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: History of Automotive Air Conditioning, Part 3 – Post-World War II Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: The History of Automatic Climate Control Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: The History of Dual-Zone Automatic Climate Control Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: 1953 Chrysler Airtemp Air Conditioning Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: 1955 Cadillac Series Sixty Fleetwood – The Cadillac Of Early Air Conditioning Systems Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: World’s Most Optioned 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: 1956 Lincoln Premiere Factory Air Conditioning Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser Factory Air Conditioning Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: 1958-60 Lincoln Continental – Craziest Factory Air Conditioning Ever? Tom Halter
Cold Comfort: 1962 Chevrolet Corvair Factory Air Conditioning Tom Halter
Corvair Cold Comfort – Heating Optional (1960-61): Your Choice Of Gasoline Or Engine Heat Paul N
Firestone Thermador Car Cooler (“Swamp Cooler”) Paul N
Other Technical Subjects:
The Origins Of The Modern Car Paul N
An X-Ray Look At GM’s X-Frame (1957-70) Paul N
The Carter AFB Carburetor: A Closer Look Into A 64-Year Veteran Aaron65
Two Carter WCDs: Why Kids Are Exactly The Way They Used To Be Aaron65
1973-77 GM Colonnade Chassis Design: Corner Carving through the Brougham Era VinceC
Chrysler’s CAP, The First Effective Exhaust Emission Control (With ’63 Dodge and Dart Road Tests) Daniel Stern
The Dawn Of The Catalytic Converter: Who Put The Cat Out? Daniel Stern
Delco-GM/Bose Sound System: GM’s Greatest Hit Of The 1980s Eric703
Electronic Ignition: Losing The Points, Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 VinceC
Ford’s “Falcon Platform”: From Falcon To Versailles In 18 Different Variations Paul N
Hold My Drink! The Story Of When Cupholders Became Good Eric703
The Operation and Tuning of a Holley Carburetor: a Modern Twist on Old Tech VinceC
Mechanical Power Brake Servo: Invented In 1919, Rolls-Royce Was Still Using It In The Sixties Paul N
The Mystery Of GM’s Two Wiper Systems Paul N
An Incompleat History of the Rear Window Wiper Barry Koch
Michelin’s TRX Tire: Reinventing The Radial Tire Didn’t Work Quite As Well As Inventing It Paul N
The Perimeter Frame: Body-And-Frame, Not Body-On-Frame Paul N
Ultrasonic Fuel Systems We Could’ve Had Daniel Stern
Why Fords Were The Worst Rusters In The Mid-Late ’60s and the ’70s Paul N
