High mileage or a high-performance camshaft swap: Those are the top two reported reasons for LS rocker-arm failure. The symptoms are a miss with a ticking sound coming from the valve cover or needle ...

LS engine architecture is indisputably amazing. There are examples everywhere, including the pages of Car Craft, of engines plucked out of salvage yards making reliable horsepower even at 1,000+ hp.

Can roller rocker arms actually help add horsepower? The mechanically savvy will likely consider that question and say: “If you have more lift, and open the valves more, then you’ll make more power.

Auto magazines are full of 1,000-horsepower LS engine stories teeming with superchargers, turbochargers, intercoolers, massive loads of nitrous, race gas, and all sorts of glamorous equipment. While ...

On our test subject, a 2001 Camaro SS, these upgrades were realized during an engine build that was completed in 2007. At the time, the budget allowed for a set of PRC Stage 2.5 5.3L heads, while a ...