Engine failures that many racers blame on the connecting rods are often actually installation mistakes. When their characteristics are correctly understood, connecting rods can be one of the strongest ...

Most of the time, it's hard to know why an uncrashed car ended up at the junkyard. With this Mini Cooper S, we know why. Street car engines mostly don't blow up in such spectacular fashion, perhaps ...

Even though it’s getting better in terms of reliability, the Hyundai Motor Group is no stranger to engine problems. This time around, approximately 129,000 vehicles are under recall over bad ...

Lamborghini recently inaugurated a research and development center in Seattle, Washington that aims to drive advances in carbon fiber technology. We’ve just learned that one of the projects it’s ...

Utah's Transcend Energy Group claims it has a relatively simple and cheap way to dramatically increase the torque output of combustion engines, simply by replacing the standard connecting rods with ...

JB Weld is a particularly popular brand of epoxy, and features in many legends. “My cousin’s neighbour’s dog trainer’s grandpa once repaired a Sherman tank barrel in France with that stuff!” they’ll ...

The annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas always brings fans of the automotive aftermarket loads of new hardware to check out. Transcend Energy Group made waves this week by unveiling the industry’s first two ...

Sebastian's spare time is spent watching Formula 1, fiddling with his friends' cars (usually German money pits), and soaking up as much architectural amazement and engineering excellence as he can ...

Although performance bearings aren't the first thing you think of when defining the specifications for a high-performance engine, and they probably won't do much to increase engine output, they are ...

When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a “do-si-do” ...

With the proliferation of crate engine assemblies and the cultural groupthink surrounding Chevy components, the selection of specific reciprocating parts has become almost an afterthought. Building a ...