You've heard that pistons have rings, but have you ever wondered why there are three? Here's how piston rings work together ...

A piston is anything but a slug. It's asked to withstand the cylinder pressures generated by 200,000,000 power strokes (in its 100,000-mile lifetime), slide in bores with a minimal amount of ...

The vast majority of vehicles are powered by what's known as an internal combustion engine. It's a concept that's been around for a long time but a Belgian engineer, called Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, ...

Numerous articles and stories have been prepared by hundreds of experts on how to improve the internal combustion (IC) engine for more speed, power or what have you. Millions of dollars worth of ...

Pistons are an engine-building element we like to brag about, but you won't catch many of us boasting about having cast pistons. Cast pistons are for wimps. Many of us like to talk up hypereutectic ...