One of the key areas for this artistry lies in the piston rings. Every engine needs the right ring gap, but it is more than just the gap itself; it must be square and clean to work properly.

There are engine assemblers, and then there are engine builders. It's one thing to merely bolt a bunch of parts together. It’s quite another thing to carefully assemble machined components to precise ...

A common ring generation geometry consists of a piston moving through tube that exits into a tank through a circular orifice in a normal wall. This paper investigates the effect of the vortex that ...