Rods are among an engine's most highly stressed partsࢤhere's why By Jim McFarland (Photography: Jim McFarland) A connecting rod is the mechanical link between t ...

Perhaps one area of concern where connecting rod stiffness is important deals with vibratory loads produced by the torsional stiffness of a connecting rod's beam section, as piston weight is ...

Connecting rods are simple pieces of tech, just arms that connect the crankshaft to the pistons, nothing more. Transcend's new two-piece unit, dubbed the Thunder Rod, is a new take on the ...

Ferrari submitted a patent for a super interesting engine anatomy comprised of pill-shaped pistons and two connecting rods joined into one. First, let’s observe a traditional piston and cylinder ...

Research connecting rods and you will find that there are two basic ways pistons are mounted to them. A bushed rod features a bronze bushing in the small end that the wristpin slides through, and ...

Scat tells us crankshafts are a series of main and connecting rod journals flanked by large counterweights engineered to “counter” the weight of the connecting rod and piston along with ...

Tsuyoshi Kubota, Kosuke Doi, Takeshi Murakami, Yuuki Kojima, Tetsu Miura, Development of Fracture-Split Connecting Rods Made of Titanium Alloy for Use on Supersport Motorcycles, SAE International ...

We’ll see here how to correctly assemble the pistons and connecting rods back together and place them in the right cylinders, a very important part if you don’t want you engine to blow up in ...

The connecting rod is heated to about 600 degrees to expand the metal. Then it's placed inside the piston and the pin connects the two components. Now, the engine can finally be assembled.