The six-person Car and Driver team was fielding a 1985 Pontiac Fiero, famous in its day for throwing engine rods and catching fire.
They would have been amazed by our sonar, radar, GPS, internal combustion engines, rods and reels, bananas, and bags of potato chips.
Hence, this paper focuses on the application of DMAICapproach for process capability improvement of the crankpin bore honingoperation of an engine connecting rod manufacturing process.
Sharma and Rao (2013) employed define, measure, analysis, improvement and control (DMAIC) approach to reduce the variation of the engine connecting rod machining process and as a result to improve the capability of the process.
This chapter provides a tutorial to design racing car engine connecting rods.
Yield, fatigue and buckling characteristics are often used as evaluation indexes for the performance of engine connecting rods in weight reduction design.
It was an overhead-valve, or push-rod, engine, not an overhead-cam engine.
The V-Rod engine is configured at 60 degrees, not Harley's usual 45 degrees, and it is liquid-cooled, not air-cooled like other Harleys.
(The exception is the kitchen, for what is a Viking stove but a hot-rod engine with burners instead of wheels?) For a weekend, I bounced between the show house, a borrowed Escalade and my own not-ready-for-prime-time apartment.
In the past these engineers have come up with the Opel Zafira, a minivan General Motors sells in Europe, and Harley-Davidson's new V-Rod engine.
