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 ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The best way to prevent the 53-block cracking issue is to avoid owning one. While it's easy enough to rule out the purchase of 1999 to 2002 24 ...

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The engine is the most important source of noise and vibration in a passenger car. Together with the oil pan the engine block in general radiates more than 50% of the total engine noise. Additionally ...

SAE International Journal of Engines, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2019), pp. 175-184 (10 pages) Stiffener ribs are widely used to increase the stiffness of engine blocks, shifting the vibration modes to higher ...

There are several ways for an engine block to become cracked. The obvious one is freezing in winter due to not using antifreeze or frequent topping up with plain water which dilutes the antifreeze.