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Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...

Car 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 ...