Taking an engine compression test is sort of like checking your car's blood pressure. It's a quick and painless procedure ...

Increasing an engine’s compression ratio is a proven way of unlocking extra horsepower, but there’s a point of diminishing returns. The team at Garage 54, the Russian mechanics who built a V16 using ...

A computer generated power stroke of an internal combustion engine, following ignition - Pathompong Thongsan/Getty Images When comparing engine specs for nearly any combustion engine automobile, we ...

Sergiu is a mechanically minded car enthusiast about to finish his university degree. From attending car meets and expositions to creating automotive content, Sergiu thrives in the presence of cars.

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Automotive history is full of dead ends that eventually get lost to time. Seventy years ago, the free-piston engine was ...

In the current market, it is common to see new diesel trucks putting out over 1,000 lb-ft of torque from the factory. That's just in the consumer space. When it comes to heavy-duty industrial ...

A.Here's a pressure-volume diagram for a combustion engine. Although rough, it is an approximation of the so-called air-standard cycle. '' Point (a) is at atmospheric pressure, after which the air is ...

You don't see diesels on the road as much ever since Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal broke, but they're still out there, and the people who love them still love them. That's partly because ...

You may have noticed that diesel engines are much louder than their gasoline counterparts, and you probably questioned why that was the case. While a noisy engine is usually a sign of trouble, that's ...

During the 1990’s, some power plants experimented with fog-based power augmentation by overspraying fog into the compressor – known as wet compression. The results were impressive. They reported a ...

Depending on what you accidentally put in your tank, putting the wrong fuel can either be completely harmless to your car or ...