Every car engine has quite a few details, ranging from cylinder count to compression ratios. How does changing the compression ratio affect the engine?

Low- And High-Compression Fuel Economy Engines: The Techniques Are About The Same, But The Approach To Each Is Somewhat Different. A.Most stock cylinder heads have factory-cut undercuts of the type ...

As we near the end of the road for internal-combustion engines, manufacturers are spending big money to eke out small gains in fuel economy. The latest miracle is Nissan’s VC-T engine, the first ...

A.Here you can see locations of sharp-edged material left from factory machining operations. Material removal should be kept to a minimum, since we are dealing with low engine rpm for which enlarged ...

Garage 54 calls it free horsepower. We call it glorious Lada carnage. A combustion engine makes power by compressing fuel and air in a cylinder, then igniting it. The tighter you compress the mixture, ...

Nissan brought the first, and only, variable-compression engine to market. But its future doesn't look bright. Complexity in cars is a funny thing. It’s tempting to say that it’s all bad, that more is ...