Autoblog

Porsche Working on Radical New W18 Engine With Three Banks of Cylinders

Porsche has patented a unique three-bank design that could redefine what a high-performance combustion engine could look like. Porsche patented a unique W18 engine design with three cylinder banks and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Double Duty Logic Block Architecture Enabling Concurrent LUT and Adder Chain Usage (Nanyang Technological Univ. et al)

A new technical paper titled “Double Duty: FPGA Architecture to Enable Concurrent LUT and Adder Chain Usage” was published by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Cornell University, ...
autoevolution

Chevrolet Silverado HD L8T Small Block vs. L5P Duramax: Which Engine Is Best for You?

General Motors and heavy-duty trucks go a long way back. For the time being, the Chevrolet Silverado HD and its GMC-branded twin do the heavy lifting for the Detroit-based automaker. The Silverado HD ...
MarketWatch

Block’s stock pops after earnings, as its two financial engines reignite

Three months after posting one of its worst drops on record, Block Inc.’s stock was powering higher late Thursday in the face of renewed business momentum. The company, which is the parent of Square ...
autoevolution

5 Sub-$4,000 Chevy Small-Block Crate Engines for Your Budget Truck Build

If you're looking for a budget-friendly small-block Chevy V8 for your next pickup truck project, look no further than these five crate engines available for less than $4,000. When thinking about crate ...
Jalopnik

What Made Mopar's 383 Engine Different From The 340 And 440?

Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...
Jalopnik

What Causes An Engine Block To Crack?

A lot of people were celebrating when white smoke over the Vatican meant there was a new pope in town -– and that included plenty of gearheads with great ideas about what the new guy should use as his ...
NextBigFuture

First Flight of Venus Aerospace BREAKTHROUGH Rotating Detonating Engine

Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)—a next-gen propulsion technology that’s been theorized for decades, but never flown… until now. The ...
GM Authority

Next-Gen GM Small Block: What Should GM Call The Truck Engines?

When it comes to engine family branding, GM has a few different names kicking around. Some of the more notable examples include Duramax, used currently for The General’s diesel engines; Vortec, ...
CompositesWorld

Venus Aerospace makes headway on scaling RDRE hypersonic engine

Venus Aerospace (Houston, Texas, U.S.), an aerospace startup building advanced engine systems for hypersonic flight, has successfully completed a technological advancement supported by a NASA Small ...
Hot Rod

Our First Look at the Summit Racing SPC Small-Block Chevy Engine Block

Last year Summit Racing Equipment released its SPC small-block Chevy block, and we finally got to check one out. Of course, the Gen IV/V LS/LT variants get most of the attention in today’s performance ...