Rod ratio is simple to calculate: Take the length of the piston rod and divide by the length of the crankshaft stroke. Why or how would that make a difference in building an engine? Piston rod length ...

The Harley-Davidson V-Rod bloodline was born in 2001 and quickly proved successful enough for it to spawn a number of exciting variants. Among them were the Night Rod and Night Rod Special, which ...

The other day I got into an esoteric conversation with Joe Sherman, Orange County's (California) leading purveyor of stealthy smallblocks. The discussion ended up on rod talk—as in rod angle, rod ...

Tenkara rods are a modern take on a traditional form of Japanese fly fishing. The entire system consists of a long rod, a leader, tippet, and a fly. In many aspects, it embodies the purest form of ...

If there's any commonality among many small-displacement OEM high-performance engines, it's that they like to scream. And enthusiasts like to make them scream. In some cases (we're looking at you, ...