Think your muscle car has a huge engine? You haven't seen anything yet. This is the largest piston engine ever made and the ...

This Hemi just erupted on the dyno at Nick's Garage. It came apart at 6,300 RPM, which should be well within its rev range.

Piston engines rely on oxygen to efficiently burn fuel, but as you fly higher, there's less oxygen in the air. Most piston-engined aircraft would have difficulty flying at airliner altitudes.

Diesel engines have pistons that look different from the ones you'd see with a gas engine. There's a reason why that's the case, and it's all about performance.

Legal troubles for GM engines continue as a settlement is reached in a lawsuit regarding oil overconsumption in the 5.3L V8 ...

A piston engine can suck in its own air and then compress it 10-20x (gas vs diesel, to the nearest multiple of ten) with plenty of leftover energy after the fuel is burned to drive the crank or an ...

That engine went from being used for 16.30 hours per day on the Cat pistons to 18.34 hours per day on the SoA pistons by the time it was removed for servicing once more in 2017 after 915 days in ...

In a free piston engine, combustion happens the same way, but there is no crankshaft. On the face of it, this seems crazy, as the pistons are just left rattling around in their cylinders.

No wonder today's OEM engines have thinner piston rings than their predecessors. Think about a 1972 Camaro and its 350ci small-block, which had a piston ring pack with two 5/64-inch rings and a 3/ ...

Piston engines are typically designed with four to six fixed cylinders arranged in a horizontally opposed configuration, not unlike the internal combustion engines found in many other types of ...

Aircraft Piston Engine Market – Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2018-2030 Segmented By Number of Engines (Single Engine, and Multi Engine), By MTOW (Below 1000Kg ...

Despite having four cylinder banks, the INNengine (depending on its configuration) actually has eight pistons. This is because the engine is an opposed-piston motor, meaning that each piston’s ...