You might have heard about high compression ratios, but what exactly are they, and what kind of effect do they have on an ...

Increasing an engine’s compression ratio is a proven way of unlocking extra horsepower, but there’s a point of diminishing returns. The team at Garage 54, the Russian mechanics who built a V16 using ...

At first glance, the concept of engine compression is simple enough:It's the ratio of the volume of the combustion chamber and bore when thepiston is at bottom dead center (BDC) versus when it is at ...

Apart from the very curious, not many people ask why diesel engines, compared to gasoline, run higher compression ratios. The argument is reasonably straightforward and starts with fuel ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for ...

You've probably heard of two- and four-stroke engines, but what are the four strokes of a gasoline engine? And how do they ...