Drop cap initial letterLet's get one thing straight: The variable-valve-timing, direct-injection, turbo-wonderful powerplant in your new car is not cutting-edge. Despite the complexity of the modern ...

Ferrari has filed a patent for an engine with pill-shaped pistons, a radical departure from traditional circular piston ...

Hello Derric, a car engine creates motion by combustion or explosive detonation of fuel air mixture, which moves pistons attached to a rotating crank shaft. The upward and downward jerky sequential ...

There is probably no better chronicler into the full depth of American ingenuity than YouTube. Here one finds not just computer models for all manner of esoteric combustion engine designs, but actual ...

Monolith Engines has developed a set of dual (Fig. 1) and quad (Fig. 2) opposed piston engines (watch Two and Four Cylinder Single Stroke Opposed Piston Engines on Engineering TV). The engines uses a ...

The increasing number of stroker crankshafts available is giving builders more options when planning a street-performance or race engine combination. The benefits of a stroker crankshaft, however, ...

The Commer TS3 engine, built for Commer trucks from the '50s into the late '60s, didn't conform to design conventions of the time. Where most engines follow familiar blueprints with one piston per ...