Owners have reported issues with the 5.0-liter V8 engines, including premature wear of timing chains and tensioners, leading to expensive engine rebuilds or replacements. Then there’s the price ...

Sandia National Laboratory led by Sandia researcher Peter Van Blarigan that has been testing physical components of free-piston engines which could be 50% efficient. This is about twice as good as ...

Navistar said it plans to use the engine’s opposed-piston layout as the basis for “revolutionizing the entire truck architecture,” Eric Tech, president of the company’s Engine Group, told ...

The engine is the heart of the car, truck, or SUV. The vehicle’s full function is dependent upon the engine, and if it isn’t running, or running well, it has a massive effect. Inside of almost every ...

Volkswagen drew international attention after committing €60 billion (roughly $60 billion) toward advancing combustion engine ...

Learn how to balance your engine with this article on engine balancing with a 331 Ford small block engine, Featured from the March 2008 issue of Car Craft Magazine.

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Patented airflow system decreases pollutants from large piston engines. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 02 / 140213112622.htm.

Do you know what an "interference engine" is? While I know a great many of our regular readers do, there's no shame if you're not exactly sure. It's a term that gets thrown around a lot, and is ...

Range-extending gas engines have a big problem: they're engineered to rotate wheels, not provide electricity. The Free Piston Engine Linear Generator cuts out the middleman for a huge efficiency ...

Another form of engine failure is a broken valve punching a hole through the top of a piston. In this case, the pressurized oil will escape through the top of that piston out through an exhaust valve.