We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Car engines derive power from thousands of miniature explosions contained within their cylinders every minute. We quickly become accustomed to ...

Detonation is a dirty word around hot rods. Nobody likes to talk about it because when it happens, it usually means some lapse of attention during engine or vehicle assembly has occurred. By the time ...

If your Kia or Hyundai engine just started making a loud knocking sound, don’t panic. You might be eligible for a free engine replacement due to a massive engine recall. A viral TikTok video is ...

Over the last decade, auto manufacturers have been engaged in a silent war against, of all things, quietness. Ordinarily, quiet is a desirable quality in cars—engineers actively battle wind roar, tire ...

THIS is another chapter in the development of a quantitative knock-measuring apparatus. The first part of the paper describes tests in which the knock sound was picked up by a microphone located a few ...

Dyno tuning is great. But, a dyno-tuned engine can't always be tuned for the stress it might see on the street, let alone something like the continued abuse of, say, a track day. This is especially ...