Piston rings are the seals in your cylinders, giving you better compression and power, but what happens if they wear or break ...

In a single-cylinder engine, the ability to homogenize and maintain the fuel-air blend prior to and during the burn is a classic combustion-engine problem. Add additional cylinders, and introduce ...

It's amazing that an object as simple as a piston can withstand the rigors of combustion for hundreds of thousands of miles without failing. There's a lot more to a piston than meets the eye, matey.

Ferrari is exploring a groundbreaking approach to the internal combustion engine, as revealed by a recent European patent filing. Departing from the industry-standard round pistons, this new design ...

Some of the world’s most complicated engines were created to achieve a specific objective. These engines were built to satisfy monster power requirements or to hit a high level of performance within ...

Golf balls have dimples, so they fly farther than balls that don't. Apply the same principle to diesel engines, and you have a gross oversimplification of why dimpled pistons were invented. It's a ...

According to fleet executives as well as fleet maintenance managers, the death of the internal combustion engine may prove to be greatly exaggerated in spite of the excitement about electric ...