Those who want to fully customize their car might wonder if they can paint their engine block's lifter valley. Are there really no downsides to it?

From March '85 to January '86, Pat Ganahl wrote an expansive 10-part essay in HOT ROD covering every step necessary to paint your car. If you read Pat's very thorough series, you probably thought "I ...

Digging your car out after a snowstorm can feel like a race against time, but experts say rushing, or using the wrong tools, ...

Paint stripping is not pretty! For a test case we stripped Art Director Charlie Hayward's "Heartland Express" '37 Chevy. At this point we are applying a second coat of Aircraft stripper to the right ...

There are a lot of reasons why you might want to paint a motorcycle engine. Maybe you're doing a custom paint job and you want the engine to match. Perhaps you dropped your bike and there are now ...

Some of the most iconic engines ever made, especially engines from the muscle car era, feature painted engine blocks. Look at the 426 Race HEMI, for example. It was one of the most well-known and ...