attach the air compressor hose, your cylinder is now pressurized. The valves will stay in the closed position as long as the air pressure is holding it
The last was Chevy's new fully automatic transmission, thus beating Ford, whose Ford-O-Matic was still a year off, and Plymouth, which wouldn't have a true self-shifter until '55. A torque-converter automatic similar to Buick's Dynaflow, Powerglide was a big reason why Chevy beat Ford ...
Oil flows to the special lifters through the AFM towers. The oil collapses the plunger inside the lifter. The collapsed lifters will not engage the pushrods and both valves remain closed. Since no air can get in or out, four cylinders provide no power. The engine is running on ...
The '56 Pontiacs were mildly restyled, and four-door Catalina hardtops arrived in each series. Styling was less distinctive -- tester Tom McCahill said the '56 looked like "it was born on its nose" -- and ride comfort wasn't the best. A bore job stretched the V-8 to 316.6 cid, ...
(radius & height, corresponding to 1/2 of bore & stroke) are doubled (squared), the volume increases by x8 (cubed). In terms of volumetric efficiency, it’s easy to predict that in order to fill that cylinder as full as possible, the area of the valves and po...