Unless you rebuilding an engine with little to no budget you're going to upgrade to aluminum forged pistons. Besides being stronger than cast pistons, the lighter aluminum cuts parasitic power loss.

Many performance cars, including the supercharged Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and most Ferrari GT models, rely on forged pistons — instead of cast-aluminum pistons — for their additional strength. Forged ...

It goes up, compresses a violent explosion, and goes down. A piston's job is easy enough to understand, but if you examine what it's required to do, you may be amazed it works at all. Think about ...

New Delhi: Yamaha Motor India plans to introduce forged piston which enables lighter piston design and better power development. The forged piston is used on the new 150cc YZF-R15, which was unveiled ...

While they're not quite ready for production, the printed parts were lighter, ran cooler and unlocked more power than the standard forged pistons. Antuan started out in the automotive industry the old ...

If you’re like many of us, you don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the pistons in your engine. Most of the time you don’t need to, but there are times when burnt, scuffed, or cracked pistons need ...

Horsepower comes in all shapes, sizes, and cylinder counts. But for the import inclined, making big power inevitably requires more robust engineering. Unlike a big V8 that spreads the loads over 8 ...

Forged internals do not make an engine invincible, particularly when variables like boost and nitrous are involved. For instance, take the tale of Jeff from Reddit. “Jeff likes to bounce on the rev ...

Technical manoeuvring to push regulatory boundaries for the slightest performance edge without actually breaking any rules is a familiar pattern in all forms of motorsport. Engineers treat the rule ...

Piston rings are the seals in your cylinders, giving you better compression and power, but what happens if they wear or break? And how can you spot the signs?