An often overlooked source of fatigue — not to mention equipment damage — that’s relatively easily mitigated with routine preventive maintenance is a stressed crankshaft damper, reports Brian LeBarron ...

The use of underdrive pulleys became common to the public in the 1970s, although the origin of the use of underdriven pulleys dates back to the earliest days of automotive racing. With constant ...

No matter how well-tuned it is, your race engine is a grumbling beast. Consider that there are four controlled explosions with every turn of the crankshaft in a V-8 engine. At 7,000 rpm, the spark ...

Crankshaft torsional dampers are increasingly being used for the gasoline engines of compact cars as well as for ordinary high speed diesel and gasoline engines. Recently, so-called bending dampers ...

The torsional viscous dampers for Caterpillar C10, C12 and C13 engines provide 500,000 miles of protection against torsional vibration crankshaft damage. They are direct replacements for the original ...

When dealing with performance engine building, there are typically few Ford production parts used. Those that are include timing covers, timing pointers, oil pans, and sometimes valve covers and crank ...