A piston is anything but a slug. It's asked to withstand the cylinder pressures generated by 200,000,000 power strokes (in its 100,000-mile lifetime), slide in bores with a minimal amount of ...

When Westech Automotive's Norm Brandes inspected J.B. Bracken's 1935 Ford Rat Rod truck (July 2017 print edition), it couldn't do a burnout and ran poorly at idle and under cruise—despite an ...

The internal combustion engine has been around for a long time. Just when it seems like every part that could be optimized or improved upon has been already, something new comes out. This latest ...

In case you’ve disassembled your Toyota VVTi engine to replace the piston rings or perform other repairing jobs, you’ll need to put all the parts back together correctly. Follow us: We’ll see here how ...

Utah's Transcend Energy Group claims it has a relatively simple and cheap way to dramatically increase the torque output of combustion engines, simply by replacing the standard connecting rods with ...

Gearheads might be aware of piston skirts, but their exact function isn't always clear to those outside engineering. Here's the lowdown.