Align Honing, Align Boring—Procedures that correct misalignment of the main bearing saddles in an engine block. Ideally, the centers of the main saddles (main bearing bores) should all be located ...

A collet is a workholding device for bar stock or workpieces that must be held to a higher degree of accuracy than a standard chuck can accomplish. The device forms a collar around an object, and ...

A flexible hybrid machining system from Heller Machine Tools works on a diesel engine block at Detroit Diesel. Walk the floor of any automotive manufacturing facility and see several types of ...

The "gearhead" aftermarket gets a great deal of its business from the DIY crowd. Lots of guys (and girls) spend a lot of their hard earned money and a lot of their free time tinkering on a favorite ...

Planning for packaging and interconnections in the early phases of a design project eliminates the chances of poor design degrading long-term reliability. The integrity of system design depends on the ...

When last we left you all those months ago (sorry), we got to see the process behind manufacturing the custom CP pistons and Carrillo Extreme Duty connecting rods that go in pro drifter RAD Dan ...