Small-blocks of all makes have grown to ridiculous ... crank that I had laying around and had it offset ground. To reduce friction, the rod journals were ground to 1.880 inches in order to fit ...

Whether you’re dealing with a mostly stock junkyard small-block or a highly modified race engine, rocker arms play a big role in freeing up horsepower and helping reduce friction in the valvetrain.

First known as the LT1 and later the LT4, the Gen II featured new, low-friction internal components and reverse-flow cooling to facilitate the most powerful small-blocks since the musclecar era.

Larry Myatt’s thoughtful and challenging essay “Nine Friction Points in Moving to Smaller ... and minds of the people involved.” The small-schools models dreamed up by the reformers (myself ...

Keywords: Seismic performance. Nonstructural components. Static friction coefficient. Kinetic friction coefficient. Rigid blocks. Block-type components. Tilt and pull tests. Dynamic analyses.