A vital piece of gas engines, combustors -- the chambers in which the combustion powering the engine occurs -- have the problem of breaking down due to fatal high-frequency oscillations during the ...

Combustion chambers have come a long way since these old "real" Pontiac V-8 open-chamber heads, circa 1968 and later. Notice there is no designed-in swirl or mixture motion whatsoever, just the first ...

Though they're the only engines officially named after their hemispherical combustion chambers, Chrysler's legendary V8s aren't the only mass-produced automotive engines to feature this technology.