An often overlooked source of fatigue — not to mention equipment damage — that’s relatively easily mitigated with routine preventive maintenance is a stressed crankshaft damper, reports Brian LeBarron ...

No matter how well-tuned it is, your race engine is a grumbling beast. Consider that there are four controlled explosions with every turn of the crankshaft in a V-8 engine. At 7,000 rpm, the spark ...

Crankshaft torsional dampers are increasingly being used for the gasoline engines of compact cars as well as for ordinary high speed diesel and gasoline engines. Recently, so-called bending dampers ...

The use of underdrive pulleys became common to the public in the 1970s, although the origin of the use of underdriven pulleys dates back to the earliest days of automotive racing. With constant ...

Engineers design modern engines to survive huge forces, yet one small part can still fail with violent results. When a crankshaft damper lets go at speed, metal fragments can slice through belts, ...

When it comes to cubes, this is how I look at it: If some are good, more are better-so too much must be just right. Correct? Get behind the wheel of a car powered by a combination of well-selected ...