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 ...

It has come to our attention that many of the top drag racing builders are overbalancing their engine assemblies. Basically, this is done to help high-rpm out-of-balance conditions and generate longer ...

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” ...

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 ...

If there's any commonality among many small-displacement OEM high-performance engines, it's that they like to scream. And enthusiasts like to make them scream. In some cases (we're looking at you, ...