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Engineers have a lot to think about when designing new engines, and one of the biggest considerations is the shape of the ...

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 ...

The story of how Honda developed an oval-piston race engine that ultimately failed but still made history along the way. Honda pioneered oval piston technology in the 1970s for four-stroke racing ...

Ford once sketched a road where an engine's pistons never saw oil and engines ran hotter on purpose. In a late‑1980s patent application filed and granted in Europe, the company described an "uncooled ...

When we here in the modern age think of an “engine,” we are usually thinking of a four-stroke, four-cylinder, gasoline-fed, internal-combustion engine with the valves on the top. But why must that be ...

Sometimes, the terms boxer engine and flat engine are used interchangeably, even though the two are not the same. What's the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's more to piston shapes than you might think. Whether it's domed, flat, or dished, all pistons have their fair share of pros ...