Engine

If you like to play with cars, if you put your car on a racetrack for HPDE and especially if you race cars, you...

The latent energy content of gasoline is fixed — 124,000 BTU — and the amount of horsepower you can make depends on how much...

Here are a couple of statistics that will blow your mind. Up to Eighty percent of the friction in a reciprocating piston engine stems...

The quick-and-dirty description of an engine’s internal combustion process is suck, squeeze, bang, blow. But that’s not entirely accurate. In reality, it’s suck, squeeze,...

The idea behind finding a new-to-me car was simple. I wanted a fun daily driver I could take to the track every now and...

Exhaust tips are a strange thing to take pictures of, you might think. To be honest, I admit that it is kind of strange,...

Certainly one of the most critical components inside an engine is one of the most stressed. Connecting rods take the power from the combustion...

If you are confused by the nomenclature of hoses and fittings associated with racecar plumbing, you’re not alone. Fittings are often measured in terms...

Nanotechnology has become a field unto itself over the last couple of decades, so it likely was only a matter of time before it...

Keeping a C5 Corvette cool on a racetrack in 100-degree heat isn’t easy. Just ask NASA Utah’s George Smith, who had been trying different...