Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bore of a cylinder (along with the stroke and the number of cylinders in the engine) is what determines displacement.

You may think that the pistons in your car’s engine slide in and out of the cylinder bore holes smooth as silk, but according to researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and ...

It is widely recognized that cast, machined metal parts tend to have memory created from internal stresses. In the presence of temperature changes, these stresses often cause dimensional and ...

If you're just getting into hot rodding, terms like align honing, micropolishing, boring, decking, chamfering, power honing and surfacing can be mighty confusing and foreboding, especially if you're ...

The Nagel Precision Inc. honing and cup wheel-face Super Finishing System. A new honing and cup wheel-face, super-finishing system, developed by Nagel Precision Inc. for small- and medium-volume ...

Single pass honing, also referred to as diamond bore sizing, is a good way to produce parts economically when the bore is small or has thin-walled members that need to be honed. Examples of such ...

The heart of a hydraulic piston pump, called a cylinder block or rotor, starts as a turned blank up to eight inches diameter. Then, nine circumferential piston bores from 0.1875 to 1.5 in. (4.8 - 38.1 ...