The lower portion of an engine and its contents, that large hunk of cast metal below the cylinder head, is commonly referred to in motorhead circles as the short-block. A short-block is comprised of ...

MATHEMATICAL analyses of the force required to accelerate the reciprocating parts of six and of eight-cylinder engines and of the axial and perpendicular components of the force needed to accelerate ...

In the last issue we presented 18 engine assembly Do's and Don'ts related to the bottom end using an early 389 Tri-Power engine for illustration purposes. For this installment, we returned to DCI ...

With applications that range from firming intermittent resources to providing combined heat and power solutions, reciprocating engine manufacturers have made strides to improve their machines’ ...

When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a “do-si-do” ...

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