If you look at aircraft from the Second World War or earlier, you'll notice that many of them have engines with large frontal areas and cylinders arranged about the propeller crankshaft. This a radial ...

9 Dec 2014, 13:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / One of the highlights of the annual tractor show in Burkhardtsdorf, is an amazing radial engine mounted on the back of a trailer. Now, we don't often get to ...

The resurgent Meyers company, makers of the original Manx dune buggy, is doing some awesome things lately. The company just showed off the super cool Old Red kit to make the company’s VW-based modern ...

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 ...

As the automotive propulsion industry shifts toward electrification, the last-of-breed combustion engines are a stultifyingly similar bunch, focused around the same CAD-optimized 500cc cylinder ...

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 ...

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 ...