Wait! Don't say anything. Okay—they're gone. I didn't want those guys to hear what we were saying about them. Who? The people who flipped past this article without reading it, of course! You see, ...

The film discusses various types of engines that utilize heat energy for operation. It explains steam engines, which are reciprocating external combustion engines, and compares them to internal ...

Here’s a copy of lithograph images (below the video) of the four-stroke cycle from Chapter V, “The Otto Cycle In Practice”, Internal Combustion Engines; Their Principles and Application to Automobile, ...

Much like discussing religion and politics at a backyard BBQ, bringing up the debate of whether a 2-stroke dirt bike is faster than a 4-stroke is like asking if Ford is better than Chevy. Fortunately, ...

NOTE: With this issue of HOT ROD, your Shop Series begins a slightly different and more comprehensive approach to the discussion of engine and vehicle basics. In the coming months, you'll find a frank ...

The vast majority of automotive petrol engines operate on what's referred to as the 'four-stroke cycle'. In a conventional single-cylinder petrol engine the hot, expanding gas -- created by burning ...

You are probably reading Project Car magazine because you like working on cars. Let’s go one step further and say that some of you are just getting into this crazy world of ours and are reading ...

Combustion in a diesel engine during cold starting under normal and border-line conditions was investigated. Experiments were conducted on a single cylinder, air-cooled, 4-stroke-cycle engine in a ...

Sounds a bit crazy to make an engine that uses an odd number of strokes, right? We have 2, 4 and even 6-stroker engines so far, with the latter being still a prototype that injects water in the ...