Diesel engines do their hardest work in the toughest jobs, from highway semis to construction equipment, and the reason they ...

We might be covering ground that's well trampled for many, but the static compression ratio of an engine is simple to understand: it's all the volume of a cylinder above the compression ring at Bottom ...

As we begin the last article in this series on the basics of the internal combustion engine, let's stop to review what we've covered during the last five articles. We began last May by detailIing the ...

Because diesel vehicles do not use spark plugs, they must rely on higher compression ratios to ignite the diesel fuel without ...