To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the stories that exemplify the core of what HOT ROD is and reflect the brand's influence on America's car ...

General Motors’ all-new 3.9L V6 has been honored with a Breakthrough Technology award by Popular Mechanics for its innovative use of variable valve timing in an overhead valve engine. For ages GM has ...

The tough guy in you says to stab that cam in retarded a few degrees for maximum top-end horsepower, while your more practical alter ego suggests advancing it a hair for improved low-end torque and ...

Honda did not invent variable valve timing or variable valve lift. In fact, Cadillac had a driver-operated variable valve timing system in production in 1903, three years before Soichiro Honda was ...

Variable valve timing (VVT) is generally accomplished by phase shifting the camshaft relative to the crankshaft. By phase shifting the camshaft, the valve events are advanced or retarded relative to ...

VTEC is an acronym for a variable valve-timing system used on Honda and Acura models since 1989. The full name is variable valve timing and lift electronic control, and the first U.S. model with VTEC ...

Set to debut in a new 1.6-liter 4-cylinder Smartstream turbo engine, Hyundai's new valve tech is able to continuously change the duration of valve openings to suit driving conditions, which Hyundai ...

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, a manufacturer of heavy-duty diesel engine retarding systems and valve actuation mechanisms, has launched a new 2-Step Variable Valve Actuation (VVA) system. By enhancing ...

Toyota has announced that it's developed a new variable valve lift;system,. Dubbed Valvematic,;it combines the automaker's existing VVT-i variable valve timing setup;with a mechanism that constantly ...

A variety of two-stage, or discrete, variable valve lift (DVVL) and continuously variable valve lift (CVVL) systems have recently been incorporated in production vehicles. Several systems that have ...