Mark McNabb was a contributor at TopSpeed from 2013 to 2018. Growing up, Mark always had a mind for tinkering on random items throughout his home and dad’s garage, including a 1953 Ford Mainline and ...

Big-End—The rod journal end of the rod that rides on the crankshaft's rod journal. Big-ends are resized for proper dimensions and roundness in a honing device after the rodcapshave been ground ...

Most of the time, it's hard to know why an uncrashed car ended up at the junkyard. With this Mini Cooper S, we know why. Street car engines mostly don't blow up in such spectacular fashion, perhaps ...

JB Weld is a particularly popular brand of epoxy, and features in many legends. “My cousin’s neighbour’s dog trainer’s grandpa once repaired a Sherman tank barrel in France with that stuff!” they’ll ...

Sebastian's spare time is spent watching Formula 1, fiddling with his friends' cars (usually German money pits), and soaking up as much architectural amazement and engineering excellence as he can ...

When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a “do-si-do” ...