Here you can see basic piston terminology, including major and minor thrust locations. Of particular note is the fact that piston pin offset can be used to counteract combustion pressures on the ...

One of the most important decisions youll make when building your next engine is what rods to use. Whether its a slightly warmed-over stock rebuild or an all-out strip-stormer, any time you increase ...

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 ...

When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a “do-si-do” ...

Once you've freed up the breathing of a motor, the desire for more power doesn't stay away for long. The quest for more juice has plenty of routes to be taken, be they NA or forced induction.

Using pill-shaped pistons and a novel connecting-rod design, Ferrari has a way of making its V-12s shorter. Ferrari is not ...