Diesel engines do their hardest work in the toughest jobs, from highway semis to construction equipment, and the reason they ...

With the combustion chamber being the root of all horsepower, it only makes sense that you start spec'ing an engine build there. One of the key variables in engine building is compression ratio, or ...

We might be covering ground that's well trampled for many, but the static compression ratio of an engine is simple to understand: it's all the volume of a cylinder above the compression ring at Bottom ...

When choosing between a gasoline or diesel engine, one critical question to ask is about durability. You may have associated diesel engines with platforms that need a lot of power and gasoline with ...

This paper describes the fundamental principles of operation of a mixture injection system now called the Compression Wave Injection system (CWI). The system has been initially designed for use in ...

Your engine is simpler than you think and only four things separate it from becoming a good-for-nothing lump of aluminum: fuel, air, spark and compression. Smoke billowing from the back of your hoopty ...

Ford's "Godzilla" V8 engines are some of the strongest gas-powered blocks in its lineup. How do the 6.8 and 7.3 versions ...