Piston ring gap recommendations have changed. Most experts now run larger second ring gaps. When I got started in this business over 30 years ago, the common practice was to run tighter piston ring ...

High performance engine building is the art of attention to detail. Top engine builders don’t take anything for granted. John Bouchard, engine builder at Boost Addicts in Madison, Tennessee showed us ...

If for some reason you disassembled a Toyota engine just to put it back and hope it will still work, here’s a short tutorial on how to check the piston rings gap tolerance, which will tell you if the ...

When I got started in this business over 30 years ago, the common practice was to run tighter piston ring gaps on the second compression ring as compared to the top ring. It was thought that the ...