Piston rings are small engine parts with a big job. They seal combustion pressure, control oil on the cylinder wall, help ...

Click to open image viewer. With a thrust of 25 tons, the V-2 engine was the first large liquid-fuel rocket engine in the world and powered the world’s first ballistic missile, the German V-2 of World ...

HOT ROD’s archives are chock-full of brilliant tech reports that truly are timeless. This one, drafted by Jim McFarland for our February 1972 issue, provides an extensive look at how important airflow ...

A vital piece of gas engines, combustors -- the chambers in which the combustion powering the engine occurs -- have the problem of breaking down due to fatal high-frequency oscillations during the ...

Gasoline direct injection (DI) engines have been lurking in the shadows of gasoline-burning, internal combustion engine development for decades but are now becoming mainstream. This is all good, as DI ...

Incomplete gasoline combustion can lead to your car running rough, and in the worst cases, can seriously damage engine ...

The inline-six-powered M cars are gaining a new pre-chamber combustion system to help meet Euro 7 compliance standards, but ...

Click to open image viewer. With a thrust of 25 metric tons (56,600 lb.), the V-2 rocket engine was the first large liquid-fuel rocket engine in the world, and greatly influenced rocket development in ...