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 ...

Ahh, two-stroke engines. Many people associate the sound (and smell) of a two-stroke with yard equipment, but for motorcycle fans, it signifies something else entirely – performance. See, before ...

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 ...

Years ago, the choice was clear: When it came to 2 stroke vs 4 stroke outboard motors, 2 stroke won every time. Two stroke motors offered a better power-to-weight ratio, were cheaper to manufacture, ...

Ford began installing 7.3-liter diesel engines, developed in conjunction with Navistar International, in its trucks in 1988. That first version featured indirect fuel injection, or IDI, and laid the ...

I was reading some goofy argument by some guys who wanted to turbocharge a lawn-mower. For the life of me I can't find the link right now - in fact, I can't even remember how I got there.