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 ...

General Motors sees a future for engines with overhead valves, a technology most automakers have abandoned in favor of overhead camshafts. GM will introduce a new family of overhead-valve (OHV) V-6s ...

Rare Ardun-equipped Ford flathead V8 crate engine built by Irvin Werksman is offered for sale with period-correct performance ...

Ford fans do not argue about much more fiercely than they do about pushrod versus modular V8s, because that split defines not ...

General Motors Corp. sees a future for engines with overhead valves, a technology most automakers have abandoned in favor of overhead camshafts. GM will introduce a family of overhead-valve V-6 ...

Even with all of its blunders over the years, one thing about General Motors that we can't really fault is its lineup of small block V8 engines. These engines have been especially central to Chevy's ...

In an overhead valve (OHV) engine, the valves are mounted in the cylinder head, above the combustion chamber. Usually this type of engine has the camshaft mounted in the cylinder block, and the valves ...

If you have gone car shopping lately, chances are that most of the cars offered to you are powered by turbocharged four-cylinder engines. This is the trend these days, but at one time, dealer lots ...

If the only thing holding you back from a GM V8 swap is some sort of social-media-hardened dislike for overhead-valve (OHV, aka pushrod) motor designs, Bring a Trailer may have just the thing for you: ...