The removal and overhaul of a Lee tank’s radial engine reveals the complexity of maintaining mid-20th-century armored vehicles. Engineers carefully disassemble heavy components while parallel engine ...
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 ...
Not a rotary engine. A radial engine. Like you’d find in a vintage piston-powered aircraft. And moreover, it has GM LS1 DNA, too—inside the custom cylinder jugs and triangular crankcase are parts ...
The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure ...
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 ...
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 ...