For decades, engine-builders have been tightening rod bolts with a torque wrench and getting away with it. But in today's high-performance world where we push engines to make a ton more power and spin ...

At 7,500 rpm, the pistons in your race engine reach either top-dead-center or bottom-dead-center and change directions 25 times per second. That means the piston goes from traveling at top piston ...