You may have heard your car has a four-stroke engine, but you're not sure what that means. Why are there four? And what is a stroke, anyway? A modern gas engine most commonly uses pistons and a ...

With the promise of cleaner emissions and more power from a compact package, the Ford 6.0L Power Stroke was introduced in 2003. This new diesel V8 was a jump in power and refinement with the ...

Just about every piston engine is defined by two basic measurements: bore and stroke. Bore is the diameter of the cylinder. Stroke is the distance the piston travels from bottom dead center to top ...

Internal combustion engines are commonly referred to by their displacements whether its old-school cubic inches or more modern CC and liter nomenclature. If you love cars, you've no doubt heard of the ...

I can never resist a good oddball engine, and this one’s pedigree is impressive. See if you can bend your mind around it. Most of you reading this probably have at least a basic understanding of how ...

The defining characteristic of a two-stroke engine is to fire (combust) every time the piston is at top dead center. This makes them highly power dense, but also notoriously makes two-stroke engines ...

Porsche patented a 6-stroke engine Outside of early Saabs, most gas-powered car engines are a 4-stroke Porsche's 6-stroke patent seems to indicate it could eke more power out of an engine Unless you ...

Every car engine has quite a few details, ranging from cylinder count to compression ratios. How does changing the ...