Less than 70k miles in, a Ford Godzilla V8 shows rust, scored bores, and a ruined cam, highlighting known issues with the modern pushrod design. Yet reports of spark plug and lifter failures have ...

Ford pushrod V8s served many a driver for decades in a veritable buffet of displacements from 1952 through 2001 (until Ford brought them back for the 7.3-liter Godzilla in 2020). In the early 1990s, ...

Pushrods convert the vertical motion of the lifter from the camshaft lobe into valve movement. A V8 engine takes advantage of that by centrally locating a single camshaft in the middle of the engine ...