The Piston Simulation function models the circular motion of a piston within a cylinder. It involves a chain of nonlinear functions. The response C is cycle time (the time it takes to complete one ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

Each piston in this inline-six diesel has deep indentations from colliding with the valves. It's a catastrophic engine failure. The horror scene isn't over, though. Removing the bottom of the oil ...

When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer ...

As much as we'd like to see the resurrection of classic cars including a Chevy Chevelle along the same lines as the Dodge Challenger Hellcat, Ford Mustang GT, and, would-be-stablemate ...

Recently, we highlighted the value of turboprops as the perfect niche aircraft between the passenger jet and the piston-driven propeller plane segments. But what if the use cases for turboprops ...

Fans of the Detroit Pistons love nothing more than to argue about uniforms and you can’t blame them. There’s been painfully little else to talk about in five seasons of miserable losing ...

Now that the BrightDrop is a Chevy model, it’s been broken into two trim levels. The old BrightDrop Zevo 400 is now the Chevy BrightDrop 400 and the old BrightDrop Zevo 600 is now the Chevy ...

1 / 17George "Yardbird" Yardley Before he led the NBA in scoring in 1957, the 6-foot-5 forward was called “Yardbird” by his fraternity brothers at Stanford, paying homage to his outdoor chores ...

Chevy is expanding its EV portfolio with electric commercial vans. GM announced it’s moving BrightDrop under the Chevrolet brand. The move comes after rival Ford revealed plans for a new ...

The Detroit Pistons may not be sold on their star shooting guard Jaden Ivey, per Eric Pincus. However, Pincus says there is no compelling reason he will be moved, just a possibility. “ ...

Since joining the NBA in 1949 and moving from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Detroit, Michigan in 1957, the Pistons have played the Philadelphia 76ers 391 times, with the Sixers holding an impressive 233 ...