The guys at Muscle Car Review show you how to check engine compression with the latest tools. Check it out only at hotrod.com or the October 2011 issue of Muscle Car Review Magazine.

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Curious to learn just how healthy or unhealthy your engine is? Get yourself a compression tester and find out. See the best compression testers here.

Is your engine underperforming? Our expert shares how a diesel engine compression test could provide the diagnosis.

We take a close look at what engine compression means, what it does, and how to test it.

Compression If everything above has failed to diagnose the issue, use a compression tester to test the compression of your engine. Low or no compression could prevent the car from starting.

Increasing an engine’s compression ratio is a proven way of unlocking extra horsepower, but there’s a point of diminishing returns. The team at Garage 54, the Russian mechanics who built a V16 ...

Unfortunately, high compression generates extra heat, which in turn encourages engine-damaging detonation—when the air-fuel mixture explodes spontaneously before the spark plug fires.

With a simple diesel engine compression test, it is possible to spot compression problems before they get worse. Here’s information on these tests and how to decide if it is time to perform one.