How hard could it to be to build a two-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE) from scratch? This is a challenge that [Camden Bowen] gladly set for himself, while foregoing such obvious wastes of time ...

The venerable Ford Power Stroke diesel engine family features some of the most technologically advanced and powerful turbodiesel engines of all time. Found primarily under the hoods of Ford's ...

The two-stroke gasoline engine was once a marvel of engineering, offering up huge doses of power in small and lightweight packages. Unfortunately, gas two-strokes also burn oil by design, making them ...

General Motors (GM) is revisiting a technology long thought to be obsolete in the world of cars: the two-stroke engine.

GM's Detroit Diesel division once made a two-stroke engine. A certain trait about this engine would lead to it getting the nickname of "Screaming Jimmy." ...

Of the three United States automakers that offer diesel-powered heavy-duty pickup trucks, only two of those diesel engines are V8s. Those V8 diesel engines are the 6.6 Duramax found in offerings from ...

The defining characteristic of a two-stroke engine is to fire (combust) every time the piston is at top dead center. This makes them highly power dense, but also notoriously makes two-stroke engines ...

As we begin the last article in this series on the basics of the internal combustion engine, let's stop to review what we've covered during the last five articles. We began last May by detailIing the ...