It's often very difficult to determine why one engine outperforms another. Basically there are two factors which govern available horsepower from an engine, volumetric efficiency and thermal ...

Boring, also called internal turning, is used to increase the inside diameter of a hole. The original hole is made with a drill, or it may be a cored hole in a casting. Boring achieves three things: ...

Figure 1 shows a spline shaft and teeth together. The teeth of a hob form a trapezia with two lines from sides under angle @. See Figure 1, which shows a spline shaft and teeth, pictured together. If ...