There are three things an engine needs in order to run: fuel, spark and a place to burn. This place, a combustion chamber, must be fairly gas-tight or the pressures developed during burning will be ...

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 ...

There's no need to sugarcoat what bad piston rings can do to your engine. Those rather thin cast-iron or steel rings may look small and irrelevant to untrained eyes, but they play a vital part in ...

No matter how much we love them, our engines are still basically inefficient air pumps and need all the help they can get to make power. Like any other type of pump, if it leaks, it won't work. And ...