So, when you think about connecting rods as "shock absorbers," several issues come to mind. For example, consider cylinder pressure loads not as "hammer blows" to a piston but very rapid pressure ...

Thats 4 tons that the connecting rod must transmit from the piston to the crankpin, and do it hundreds of times per second at racing speeds. Inertia loads are both compressive (crush) and tensile ...

As the pistons in an engine move up and down, driven by expanding gases as the air and fuel burn, connecting rods, or con rods, transmit the linear force of the pistons into a rotating motion of ...

is a new take on the connecting rod's function. It effectively moves the pivot point of the piston down from the piston itself to a point on the connecting rod. This means the piston travels in a ...

While Honda famously experimented with oval pistons in the late 1970s and early 1980s for its Grand Prix motorcycles ... to the crankshaft and used two connecting rods per piston—Ferrari ...

the first-ever two-piece connecting rod. What benefits does this have? Read on. Transcend Energy Group says that the new secondary joint causes the piston to drop faster and farther at a 90-degree ...