Engines

Resources for understanding how engines actually work.

How they work

Animated Engines (Website) — clear, interactive animations of how engines run, from four-stroke to Stirling.

• Four stroke (Interactive) — the Otto cycle, one stroke at a time.
• Wankel (Interactive) — makes the rotary finally click.
• Single Cylinder Stirling (Interactive) — the clearest hot/cold cycle animation.

• How a Car Works (Website) — free illustrated course on the whole car, engine included.

Videos

• Speeed (Channel) — 74 videos for 2.48M subscribers, most of them twenty to thirty-five minutes on cars and the things around them: every type of suspension explained, how every car brand got its name, building a fun cheap classic in five days, and the part of every project car nobody finishes.