Here you can see basic piston terminology, including major and minor thrust locations. Of particular note is the fact that piston pin offset can be used to counteract combustion pressures on the ...

A piston is anything but a slug. It's asked to withstand the cylinder pressures generated by 200,000,000 power strokes (in its 100,000-mile lifetime), slide in bores with a minimal amount of ...

Federal-Mogul Powertrain has introduced two piston skirt coatings – EcoTough-New Generation (for gasoline engines) and EcoTough-D (for diesel propulsion units). Building on previous EcoTough coatings, ...

It’s the classic racer’s dilemma. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the fancy forged pistons you already have, but opening up the bores just a tad during the next short-block rebuild means that ...

In our last edition of Project Low-Buck SR20DE, we stated our goals of obtaining a decent amount of naturally aspirated horsepower and good track day driveable reliability from an underdog plain jane ...