Honda might be looking back to early aeronautics in its latest bid to make variable compression engines simpler and sturdier. The engine is designed to take advantage of the simple crank design of ...

Us car guys want to believe our engines are cooler than ones in aircraft, but they're not. I bet that if we grew up flying biplanes instead of family sedans, we'd all be into carbureted radial engines ...

CANTON Over the past 15 years C. Mitchell Boulton has been working to make something old new again. Doing what he described as a retirement hobby, Boulton began reverse engineering a radial aircraft ...

Last week, we introduced you to Robert “Jocko” Johnson, the desert-dwelling sculptor/cylinder head-porting master/would-be land speed record-breaker profiled in the May 5, 1997 issue of Autoweek. This ...

When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick ...

We think it’s likely that there are a lot of automobile or motorcycle enthusiasts — some may be reading this right now, in fact — who are always dreaming of what they’d build if only they had the time ...

Crankshaft torsional dampers are increasingly being used for the gasoline engines of compact cars as well as for ordinary high speed diesel and gasoline engines. Recently, so-called bending dampers ...

Bore and Stroke: 117 mm (4.6 in.) x 108 mm (4.3 in.) The Warner Aircraft Corporation of Detroit, Michigan built four models of similar radial air-cooled engines. Three were seven cylinder engines ...