NOTE: With this issue of HOT ROD, your Shop Series begins a slightly different and more comprehensive approach to the discussion of engine and vehicle basics. In the coming months, you'll find a frank ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

Hypersonic missiles wouldn’t exist without one key piece of tech – the SCRAMJET engine. In this video, we break down how ...

How RCCI Engines Work - Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) is a ...

Internal combustion might as well be wizardry to me. I have a basic idea of how engines work and I’ve been wrenching on them since I was a teenager, so I get the gist of it, but my feeble brain still ...

Soon after the internal combustion engine was invented, technological advancements steadily improved its efficiency and boosted its power output. Increasing displacement—or, in simpler terms, ...

One of the turbo engine's most iconic sounds is called the turbo flutter. That "stu-tu-tu-tu" sound the Nissan Skyline GTR R34 makes as the throttle closes is the sound of compressed air escaping past ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

Carbon emission-free engines that burn hydrogen increasingly look like a viable technology for vehicles that range from race cars to cement mixers. The motorsport department at Austrian automotive ...