The folks at TRW have come up with a revolutionary idea for reducing the piston ring drag of the top compression ring. It is called the Pressure Balance Ring (PBR). Essentially, the PBR design amounts ...
A. Objects of the long axis type mounted on parallel supports. The heavy spot, as denoted here by the black dot, causes the object to be both statically and dynamically unbalanced. See All 17 Photos B ...
When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a “do-si-do” ...