Adding a balance weight to a hollow camshaft isn’t a completely new idea, but Subaru has found an innovative strategy.
The decision-making process when selecting a camshaft used to be little more than answering the question, How big do you want to go? Virtually all Detroit engines came from the factory with hydraulic ...
It's not quite reinventing the wheel, but Subaru is reinventing the camshaft. CarBuzz has just found a new patent from the ...
With engines, bigger is typically better. Well, sort of. Bigger generally means more power, but it can also mean more headaches. More boost will give you more power, but it will also require more ...
With approximately 480 million systems produced, the company continues developing hydraulic and electric camshaft phasing ...
When the function of a camshaft(s) is explained to non-mechanically-inclined types, it's sometimes referred to as the "brain" of an engine. Most engines will live their entire lives with the stock cam ...
Your car's camshaft — or camshafts if your vehicle has a DOHC engine — is a vital component that plays a critical role in the internal combustion process. Its job is to synchronize the opening and ...
Like most things we're not familiar with, many look at degreeing a camshaft as some sort of black magic voodoo that only the most expensive of engine builders in brightly lit "clean rooms" know how to ...
"Streetability" be damned-this is an all out, big boy camshaft test for the diehard LS1 crowd. Our rules were simple: If it fits in a stock LS1 and you keep it on the shelf, we want to test it. Can it ...
Suck, squeeze, bang, blow. These are the four strokes of the reciprocating, internal-combustion engine (ICE) that Nikolaus Otto patented in the 19th century. The action of the intake valves that allow ...