Diesel engines do their hardest work in the toughest jobs, from highway semis to construction equipment, and the reason they ...

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 ...

A fundamental difference between gasoline and diesel engines is that a gasoline engine uses spark ignition while a diesel engine uses compression ignition. Before we delve deeper, let's understand how ...

We put both engines on the dyno to see which made more horsepower and torque. It didn’t go as planned. Over the past year, we assembled two very mild small-blocks aimed at the typical hot-rodder ...

Compared to the 1960s, the octane content of street-legal gasoline is dismal, to say the least. Today's so-called "high-octane premium" usually is rated at only 92 octane—when you can fine it at all.