When you first started daydreaming about your custom car project, chances are you gave little (if any) thought to the brackets and pulleys you'd use on the engine. Heck, you probably only gave the ...

Burnouts and powerslides are some very entertaining ways of utilizing horsepower, but man does not live on hooliganism alone. Granted, forward propulsion is the primary function of an engine, but ...

Pulley systems are simple machines that make lifting heavy objects easier. They consist of a rope or cable that passes over one or more wheels (pulleys). A single pulley changes the direction of force ...

We are all looking to slim down these days, even cars have joined the ranks of those trying to shed a few pounds. Weight is the key to performance, and the less you have the better thing perform.

Mechanical devices can change one form of force to another. All moving parts work on some sort of mechanism. Mechanical systems all involve an input, process and produce an output. There are three ...