SAE Transactions, Vol. 106, Section 5: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS & MANUFACTURING (1997), pp. 438-445 (8 pages) Today, light connecting rods are vital to satisfying the demands of modern internal combustion ...

Many efforts have been made recently in developing P/M connecting rod. As a result, some P/M forged connecting rods were put into practical usage. However, P/M forging process has a disadvantage in ...

Ford Motor Company's 4-cylinder engines have always been popular with the hot rodding set. Even in the days of the flathead, a beefed-up flattie four Ford was a force to be reckoned with. And as the ...

Plymouth, Michigan-based Metaldyne has signed an agreement with Mazda Motor Corporation, allowing the car maker to use its powder metal forged connecting rod technology in its new I4 global engine ...

Disputing the relevance and performance of the LS engine is an uphill and unwinnable battle. It’s light, strong, cheap, powerful, and just about every other engine-oriented adjective in the dictionary ...

Lamborghini recently inaugurated a research and development center in Seattle, Washington that aims to drive advances in carbon fiber technology. We’ve just learned that one of the projects it’s ...

An array of powder-metal parts. Powder metallurgy was practiced long before ancient artisans learned to melt and cast iron. Egyptians made iron tools using PM techniques back in 3,000 B.C. The ancient ...