This 2023 Chevy Silverado owner wants to upgrade to the 2026 5.3L. The 5.3L V8 is a legend, but rumors of persistent lifter ...
If you believe frequent oil changes and a DFM disabler are enough to bulletproof your Chevy Silverado V8, this owner’s catastrophic failure at just 130,000 miles is a wake-up call you can’t afford to ...
Engines are incredibly complex. They are made out of thousands of different parts, exposed to high temperatures, and have lots of moving parts. This leaves many potential pain points an engine can ...
View post: This Ferrari F40 Has Just 458 Miles and Could Set a New Price Benchmark YouTuber mechanic bought a suspiciously cheap, 6.4L Hemi V8 with mystery issues. Teardown revealed a failed lifter; ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Imagine you could get all the brawny output of a robust V8 engine in your truck when needed, but also get improved fuel efficiency while ...
Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in late August 2005, doing more than physically devastating New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast. Katrina also exposed layers of systemic failures − in infrastructure, ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, when cars and truck engines used solid lifters, a cacophonous drivetrain was to be expected. However, solid lifters were phased ...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft dubbed Liberty Lifter. The demonstrator was meant to prove the ability to ...
As we reported in our article about the new Chinese design, an ekranoplan uses the aerodynamic concept of ground effect to travel at high speeds just above the surface of water (or, less commonly, ...
If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be patient because DARPA has confirmed that it has cancelled its US$98-million ...
DARPA has ended its Liberty Lifter effort to build a full-scale seaplane demonstrator earlier than originally expected, with the agency deciding it was not cost-effective or feasible to build the ...
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