To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the stories that exemplify the core of what HOT ROD is and reflect the brand's influence on America's car ...

Within the assembly process for a modern racing engine, there are many checks and inspections required to achieve the desired power levels we have come to expect as commonplace. One of these checks is ...

A heterodyne interferometry system with a fiber-optic sensor was developed to measure the temperature history of unburned gas in an engine cylinder. A polarization-preserving fiber and metal mirror ...

The big-block Chevy has been in a constant state of evolution since the General rolled out the first W series in 1958, and the Mark IV engines that debuted in 1965. For the past 50-plus years many ...

In-cylinder charge motion plays a key role in optimizing the combustion process of modern reciprocating engines. The present paper describes a method for obtaining the volumetric, isothermal, ...