Piston rings are the seals in your cylinders, giving you better compression and power, but what happens if they wear or break ...

If asked what you wanted for piston rings in your engine build, would you know how to answer? Piston rings have the most important job in your engine. We will get arguments on this one because there ...

Repeated cycles of searing combustion heat alternating with cool incoming air and fuel, extreme load reversal, thrust forces that slam the pistons into the cylinder wallsits quite amazing that ...

It's all about piston rings. This video serves as a great primer on what's going on with piston rings as they move along with the piston in an engine. The basic duty of the rings is to keep the ...

Presumably that you want to replace the worn out piston rings of a Toyota VVTi engine, you’ll need to know how to correctly put the new ones in place. The hardest part is to reach the piston rings ...

High performance engine building is the art of attention to detail. Top engine builders don’t take anything for granted. John Bouchard, engine builder at Boost Addicts in Madison, Tennessee showed us ...

Vehicles affected by service bulletin: The problem: The piston rings in certain cylinders may rotate and align, leading to engine oil consumption and spark plug fouling. See More Service Bulletins ...

One of the Volkswagen Group’s most widely used engines is at the center of a new class action lawsuit in the United States.

The problem: Piston rings may rotate and align in certain Honda cars. If this happens, uncontrolled oil burning may occur inside the engine, causing it to misfire. This may be due to faulty piston ...