Today I want to look at a badge that was once quite common to see on car buttocks: a series of letters that read DOHC. I know for a great percentage of our readership, this is like asking what ...

Automakers often toss around terms that look like alphabet soup to some, including engine descriptors such as DOHC, SOHC and OHV. These engine acronyms can be confusing. Here is what they stand ...

And although you can still find many cars with pushrod engines, including General Motors' notorious LS engine line, most modern vehicles feature SOHC or DOHC engines. But what does that mean ...

Pushrod engines are mostly known for putting out heaps of torque at lower engine speeds, but they're not really able to run at high engine speeds like SOHC or DOHC motors. Here's how an overhead ...

He wanted to share his trials and tribulations of designing and building a big-bore modular DOHC engine to help educate anyone else facing the same daunting task. A reformed street racer with 13 ...

Debuting in the '93 Lincoln Mark VIII luxury coupe, the 4.6L DOHC Modular V-8 quickly transformed a quiet, sedate luxury coupe into a high rpm screamer with a stab of the throttle. The modular V-8 ...

And it has its own internal name: LT5. That name should be familiar to any Corvette fanboys—it’s the same designation GM gave to the only other DOHC V8 in the ‘Vette’s history, the Lotus ...

The abbreviations DOHC, SOHC, and OHV usually refer to different types of car engines. A particular setup mostly depends on the type and age of your vehicle − be it a vintage car dating back to the ...