When it is powering a race car--with all the rumbling, vibrations,beating, and banging going on--it can sometimes be easy to forget thatthe engine is a precision piece of equipment. In the hands of ...

What is a balanced engine? Why do you want a balanced engine? An engine has uneven forces from rotational mass, reciprocating mass, and firing intervals. To balance the engine, we need to balance out ...

'The performance world is full of cool stroker engine combinations these days that fill more pages in crankshaft catalogs than ever before. We're talkin' about long-arm 460 Fords, wild Cleveland ...

V-shaped engines like the V6 and V8 power lots of cars, but you probably never think about what, exactly, that V angle is.