Torque-to-yield bolts are bolts designed to stretch past their elastic range, allowing them to maintain better sealing across ...

At 7,500 rpm, the pistons in your race engine reach either top-dead-center or bottom-dead-center and change directions 25 times per second. That means the piston goes from traveling at top piston ...

Let's face it: Most of us don't have engine lathes and milling machines in our garage. Heck, we barely have a complete socket set, much less honing machines and other whatzits to machine a motor with.

When your foot is blue and your motor is reaching for the moon, we know what you're thinking: It's a good thing this engine's rock solid. At least we hope that's true. And as important as good-quality ...

Introducing a screw that knows more about your engine than you do. Feel insulted? You shouldn’t. The data bolt can store about 2 kilobytes of information, not a lot in comparison to your iPod, but its ...

To a novice, the task of rebuilding an engine might seem a gargantuan undertaking, something that is too much for him to tackle. We are going to explain how to do it in such understandable detail, ...

Threaded fasteners haven’t changed drastically since they were invented ages ago. But now, General Motors has put RFID tags in the bolts used on engine assembly lines, turning simple hardware into ...

A 2023 Corvette Z06 owner has spent over 60 days watching his supercar collect dust in a service bay because of a few ...

In Tonawanda, N.Y., General Motors‘ factory temporarily installs a bolt with an embedded passive RFID tag on every cylinder head and engine block that GM uses to make its Gen 5 six- and eight-cylinder ...