What makes piston ... top rings perform so well that even automakers are using more of them these days in production engines for durability. Steel makes more sense if you're planning boost ...

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 ...

The rings sit in machined grooves in the piston and are slightly ... at operating temperature. Ring gap is where many engines fail, especially when boost is added. Regardless of the ring thickness ...

or run boost; all of which will ultimately dictate the piston ring gap. The good news is that with most off-the-shelf piston and ring assemblies, the hard work involved with pairing the rings to ...

If for some reason you disassembled a Toyota engine just to put it back and hope it will still work, here’s a short tutorial on how to check the piston rings gap tolerance, which will tell you ...

Unlike a car piston ring which is a single ring with a small gap, a Clupet ring has two turns (see photo from the Peter’s Railway YouTube video, linked below) with no gap between the two loops. In ...

and engine oil is applied between and the piston rings and cylinder liner to create an effective seal in the combustion chamber. The gap between the cylinder liner inner wall and the piston ring is ...

What makes piston ... top rings perform so well that even automakers are using more of them these days in production engines for durability. Steel makes more sense if you're planning boost ...