The key ingredient to maximizing the peak performance of a diesel engine is increasing the amount of diesel being burned. On old mechanical-injection engines, the only way to do this was to modify the ...
The first thing you should understand is that direct-port, constant-flow fuel-injection—Hilborns, En-derles, Crowers, whatever—were never designed, nor intended, to be run on the street. All of these ...
Question: I was having a conversation about cars with my 14-year-old son, and the topic of fuel injection came up. He wanted to know how it works, and I began to tell him but then realized I was ...
All modern cars today use fuel injectors to supply fuel to the engine. These are small electro mechanical devices that spray fuel directly in front of the intake manifold placed in front of the intake ...
For those of you who haven’t spent much time around the Power Stroke name, the first 14 years of its production (the 7.3L and 6.0L) utilized a hydraulically activated, electronically controlled, unit ...
Modern-day electronic fuel injection has been simplified to the point where it oftentimes makes little sense not to be running it. However, some are still spooked by the implied complication of the ...
The 1957 Corvette did something quietly radical: it took fuel injection out of the lab and the racetrack and put it on a ...
Here’s how you started a car with a carburetor on a cold morning back in the “good old days.” You’d pull out the choke, pump the throttle a few times, and turn the key. If you didn’t overdo it and ...