Getting an engine compression test for your car is a bit like having your blood pressure taken. It sounds complicated without context, but it's a relatively straightforward and painless procedure that ...

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 ...

The Demand for Compression Increases in test pattern size reduce the throughput of production testers proportionately and consequently drive up the cost of testing. In fact, the size of test patterns ...

Compression: An automotive term used by everybody, forever. Let's get into some detail and maybe develop a better understanding. Pressure, and more pressure: It's a must-have to produce power within ...

Rod ratio is simple to calculate: Take the length of the piston rod and divide by the length of the crankshaft stroke. Why or how would that make a difference in building an engine? Piston rod length ...

For more than a century now, automotive engineers have struggled with an unavoidable balancing act when it comes to engine compression. Now, thanks to an innovation from Infiniti, they may get to ...