You might be wary of hanging a heavy hunk of metal on the front of your crankshaft, but a quality racing harmonic damper will actually produce horsepower and help your engine live longer. I have been ...

No matter how well-tuned it is, your race engine is a grumbling beast. Consider that there are four controlled explosions with every turn of the crankshaft in a V-8 engine. At 7,000 rpm, the spark ...

An often overlooked source of fatigue — not to mention equipment damage — that’s relatively easily mitigated with routine preventive maintenance is a stressed crankshaft damper, reports Brian LeBarron ...

What is a damper, and where is it on the engine? It is the barbell-looking “weight” on the front of the crankshaft near the front of the engine. There is a free-floating ring of steel (inertia ring) ...

The internal combustion engines that power our cars rely on an extensive series of interconnected parts, mechanical systems, and electronics to send us down the road. Some of those components are well ...