Recently the engine in a close friend's street rod developed a severe case of blow-by—severe enough for the left fender to be covered in oil after a short drive. Blowing oil out of a breather is ...

Since the detonation tendency of the fuel is the limiting factor in the development of power and the efficiency with which the fuel can be burned, the author considers this phase of the subject .with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To understand the effects of crevices on the engine-out hydrocarbon emissions, a series of engine experiments was carried out with different ...

Detonation is a dirty word around hot rods. Nobody likes to talk about it because when it happens, it usually means some lapse of attention during engine or vehicle assembly has occurred. By the time ...

Detonation is a supersonic combustion wave, characterized by a shock wave driven by the energy release from closely coupled ...

THE arrival in Great Britain from the United States of ethyl petrol—the anti-knock fuel containing 6 c.c. of ethyl fluid (lead-tetra-ethyl 54-5 per cent.; ethylene dibromide 36-5 per cent.; and ...

Venus Aerospace conducted its first powered flight last month, reaching Mach 0.9 with a drone. The 8-foot-long vehicle was dropped from an Aero L-29 Delfín aircraft at 12,000 feet and flew under the ...