Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and the more mass the object has the more it tends to stay in motion. This is why we upgraded the flywheel on a four-cylinder Jeep YJ Wrangler with a ...

Our 4x4s have a lot of wear items, from tires and shocks to brake pads and clutches. When parts wear out, it’s a great excuse to upgrade to something better, which is what we recently did when the ...

BMW fairly stole the Geneva Auto Show spotlight with its start-stop technology, which kills the engine whenever the car comes to a stop, then restarts it when the driver lifts from the brake. Now ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, SECTION 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS, Part 2 (1995), pp. 2172-2180 (9 pages) High vibration levels at the rear bearing cap and oil pump were observed in dyno tests for a ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 116, SECTION 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS JOURNAL (2007), pp. 2037-2044 (8 pages) The work presented in this paper outlines the design and development of a ...