If you are tired of eating up front disc brakes and having to lay on the brake pedal longer than you’d like when your late-model GM HD pickup is towing a big gooseneck or heavy tow-behind trailer, we ...
QUESTION:I inherited an ’01 Ford F-250 with 238,000 miles on it. The truck was used primarily to tow cattle and hay trailers. The 7.3L Power Stroke engine runs pretty good despite its fair share of ...
Turbochargers are one of the best methods for extracting more power out of an engine with less total displacement. Unlike a supercharger, which compresses air at the intake stage and runs off a belt ...
SAE Transactions, Vol. 105, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1996), pp. 1800-1806 (7 pages) An axially movable vane turbocharger has been modified based on the basic aerodynamic design principles, and ...
Although Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine back in 1898, it wasn’t until the diesel cycle was mated to a positive-pressure compressor that it really began to shine. Mechanical supercharging, ...