To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the stories that exemplify the core of what HOT ROD is and reflect the brand's influence on America's car ...

If you’re Bill Gates or that kid who owns Facebook, you can probably spare a million bucks more easily than a regular working man can cough up a thousand dollars. That’s just the way things go, so ...

The pressurized wetsump oiling system on most production vehicles will look like this. Oil is stored in the oil pan and sucked into the oil pump (which is also located in the oil pan) to be pumped ...

Racers are a picky bunch. We scrutinize parts and sweat minute details down to the thousandth of an inch. We painstakingly gap spark plugs, set valve lash, and carefully select the brand and weight of ...

Drive a few HPDEs or drag races and it won’t take long to figure out that your car’s performance bottlenecks aren’t really about power or torque—they’re about oiling. A built small-block with bonkers ...

The BG PF12 and PF15 Power Flush for engine oil systems pre-sent a solution for correct maintenance of engine oil systems. Used by a trained technician, the PF12 and PF15 inject a safe, effective ...

Using the best engine oil additive can help improve the performance and longevity of your engine in a variety of ways. Most change the viscosity of the engine oil. Some also provide a coating of sorts ...

Note: This is the third in a series that looks at the diesel particulate filter and maintenance best practices that an impact its lifecycle. The first installment, "Diesel coolant heaters boost DPF ...

Car maintenance can be as difficult as it is messy. This is primarily because there are just so many fluids involved. Fluids of the darkest, stickiest, most potentially dangerous sort, in many cases.