While the Ram Air V has become legendary, it didn't actually last very long or make it's way into many Pontiac cars. Here's ...

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...

Most personal airplanes utilize air-cooled piston engines, chosen for their light weight and continuous coolant supply, despite their basic design remaining largely unchanged since pre-WWII. Pilots ...

While diesel engines don't need spark plugs, they do need air ventilation for proper combustion. This is a problem for vessels traveling underwater, such as submarines. Yet diesel submarines exist and ...

Porsche fans are probably aware that the 993 generation (1994 to 1998) was the last of the air-cooled 911s. What may come as a surprise is that vintage Porsche 911s are not exclusively air-cooled. In ...

If you are not at least moderately informed about how engines work, you may still be aware that they all require water, or antifreeze, in order to function. It is true that some form of coolant is ...

Porsche could be reviving an old technology for its future internal combustion engines. New patent filings suggest Zuffenhausen’s finest may be resorting back to air-cooling for its future mid- and ...

In general, the simpler a thing is, the better. That doesn’t appear to apply to engines, though, at least not how we’ve been building them. Pistons, cranks, valves, and seals, all operating in a ...