Engine failures that many racers blame on the connecting rods are often actually installation mistakes. When their characteristics are correctly understood, connecting rods can be one of the strongest ...

Horsepower is becoming easier to make every day. With nitrous, supercharging, electronic fuel injection and killer cylinder heads, achieving horsepower and stratospheric rpm is now easier than ever.

SAE Transactions, Vol. 106, Section 5: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS & MANUFACTURING (1997), pp. 438-445 (8 pages) Today, light connecting rods are vital to satisfying the demands of modern internal combustion ...

Once you’ve freed up a motor’s breathing, the desire for more power doesn’t stay away for long. The quest for more juice has plenty of routes, be they NA or forced induction. Regardless of which path ...

Many efforts have been made recently in developing P/M connecting rod. As a result, some P/M forged connecting rods were put into practical usage. However, P/M forging process has a disadvantage in ...

Plymouth, Michigan-based Metaldyne has signed an agreement with Mazda Motor Corporation, allowing the car maker to use its powder metal forged connecting rod technology in its new I4 global engine ...