Have you ever wondered how two V8 engines can sound so different? It may come down to the crankshaft - here's why a ...

The sounds of the automotive world are as diverse as the cars from which they emanate, with certain engine notes being almost instantly identifiable. For instance, there's no mistaking the deep ...

Follow that syncing order so that the pistons where the engines meet are ... it needs counterweights to balance the crankshaft. A V6 is really two three-cylinder engines arranged in a V shape ...

Now we have the Nettuno, a 90-degree 3.0-liter V6 created to power Maserati ... rod journals that each hold two pistons. As an even-fire engine, the crank experiences a firing event every ...

The first-generation EcoBoost V6 production spanned from 2011 ... a stronger forged crankshaft, revised pistons, new piston-cooling oil jets, and a variable-pressure oil pump.

Its piston isn't attached to a crankshaft; instead, as the piston is forced downward during its power stroke, it passes through windings in the cylinder to generate a burst of three-phase AC ...

Besides the fact that there are no fuel-air explosions involved, these pistons are ... cylinders and V2, V6, V8, and even R12 were all on the menu. He could also change crankshaft geometry to ...

The centerpiece to this build is a factory-replacement 3.74-inch (95mm) stroke crankshaft found in ... stroke combined with stock-replacement 4.2L pistons sized for a 0.030-inch overbore yielded ...

The piston is called "free" because there is no crankshaft. On its power stroke, the piston dumps its kinetic energy into the fixed windings which surround it, generating a shot of three-phase AC ...

In a four-stroke engine, an individual piston fires every 720 degrees (two crankshaft rotations). If you divide that by the number of cylinders, you get a figure that represents the optimal ...