Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Modern Pistons (and Probably Some Things You Didn’t)

The slugs of aluminum inside your engine live in a fiery hell. At full throttle and 6000 rpm, a piston in a gasoline engine is subjected to nearly 10 tons of force every 0.02 second as repeated explosions heat the metal to more than 600 degrees Fahrenheit. READ MORE ››

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