As hard-chrome plating has fallen out of favor, hydraulic-cylinder manufacturers have developed alternative coatings and platings. Here is how they affect seal performance and life. • Hard-chrome ...

A piston is anything but a slug. It's asked to withstand the cylinder pressures generated by 200,000,000 power strokes (in its 100,000-mile lifetime), slide in bores with a minimal amount of ...

Over the past two years or so, we've covered many things in the How It Works series, especially when it comes to the engine. Due to the success of this series, we thought we'd condense some of the ...

According to leading industry sources listed in ManufacturingTalk.com, friction welding has become widely accepted as a competitive and effective process and a valid, proven alternative to complex ...

It all begins with a healthy heart, and in racing and motorsport that ticker sometimes has to produce gobs of power. But even if output is limited, you can never have too much reliability — and the ...