Honda decided to use its existing eight-pot - which happened to be of a four-stroke configuration - and create one piston ...

The exhaust stroke is the fourth and last one in the cycle: the piston moves up to TDC, pushing burnt gases out of the cylinder. This is commonly how modern combustion engines work. Some engines ...

The Piston Simulation function models the circular motion of a piston within a cylinder. It involves a chain of nonlinear functions. The response C is cycle time (the time it takes to complete one ...

Narrator: Engines are made up of over 300 bolts and dozens of moving parts, like pistons and valve springs, that all work together to turn combustion into motion. One part can be the difference ...

When the piston of one cylinder is half-way down on its working stroke, that of the opposite cylinder is just ready to begin on the working stroke, the result being that there is a practically ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design, from single-cylinder ... the end of its stroke.

The 383 stroker was special because the parts required to build one from ... a little cylinder wear was fine. The key ingredient is the crankshaft of the 400 SBC with its 3.75-inch stroke ...