A ny oddball engine is clickbait crack for mechanical nerds, and the most compelling ones purport to introduce an entirely ...

Some are promising, one is not. The Napier is a complicated extrapolation of a basic opposed-piston engine. Your average “engine” has cylinders and pistons lined up with a cylinder head on top ...

Heat is a byproduct of combustion. Both air-cooled and water-cooled engines need to dissipate that heat to keep the engine from running too hot. Can piston rings play a role in managing that heat?

As an example, let's start with a small-block Chevy, cylinder Number One. Yank the plug and turn the engine over until the piston is at top dead center (TDC). If you have balancer marks every 90 ...

Remarkable innovations have been made to automotive technology since Karl Benz introduced the world to the "Motorwagen" in 1866 and Henry Ford gave rise to the American auto industry with the ...

When we think of the largest piston engines ... The Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C is a 14-cylinder turbodiesel engine that measures about 27.3 meters or nearly 90 feet long — this length is about ...

I love weird engines—give me a rotary, a turbine, or, hell, even a flat-eight and I’ll be happy. That’s why I was so excited when I heard that INNengine of Granada, Spain had produced a ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design, from single-cylinder all the way up to radial twelve-cylinder engines.

"Until 1974, this demand was met by increasing average piston speeds and displacement of four-cylinder engines in connection with progress in diesel combustion. Considering wear, fuel consumption ...

Inside of almost every modern internal combustion engine (ICE) are pistons, which move up and down inside of cylinders. These move up and down to spin the crankshaft. The crankshaft is then connected ...

More cylinders means many components of an engine's rotating assembly—pistons, rods, valves, camshafts, crankshaft, etc.—can be made lighter, reducing inertia, and allowing for higher engine ...