For how basic it is, a car engine's four cycles of combustion are truly fascinating. A perfectly timed valvetrain ensures that the air/fuel mixture enters, compresses, and then exits without piston-to ...

The folks at TRW have come up with a revolutionary idea for reducing the piston ring drag of the top compression ring. It is called the Pressure Balance Ring (PBR). Essentially, the PBR design amounts ...

When I first started working for HOT ROD magazine more than 30 years ago, nearly all American domestic production cars used a thick, 5/64-5/64-3/16-inch piston-ring package. The top, usually ...

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Co. construction crews used a Demag CC-8800 crane, the world’s fourth-largest crawler crane (according to Las Vegas Review-Journal), to lift a 170-ton steel ...

If asked what you wanted for piston rings in your engine build, would you know how to answer? Piston rings have the most important job in your engine. We will get arguments on this one because there ...

Piston ring grooves serve a larger purpose than simply supporting the rings. They impact combustion sealing, oil control, friction, and many more engine attributes. Wiseco is a world leader in piston ...

A healthy engine is a precision piece of machinery. When its tolerances are within spec, seals are tight, spark is ample, and components are well-oiled, it's reliable and operating with utmost ...