Honda might be looking back to early aeronautics in its latest bid to make variable compression engines simpler and sturdier. The engine is designed to take advantage of the simple crank design of ...

When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick ...

Last week, we introduced you to Robert “Jocko” Johnson, the desert-dwelling sculptor/cylinder head-porting master/would-be land speed record-breaker profiled in the May 5, 1997 issue of Autoweek. This ...

Crankshaft torsional dampers are increasingly being used for the gasoline engines of compact cars as well as for ordinary high speed diesel and gasoline engines. Recently, so-called bending dampers ...