Electronic fuel injection is better for its efficiency, but installing it in a car that wasn't built for it requires ...

Carburetors are complicated mechanical contrivances, and can be difficult to understand for the uninitiated. They’re often explained with teaching resources like cutaway drawings and diagrams that ...

In Part One of this series (January '93), we discussed how an internal-combustion engine heats a fuel-and-air mixture to convert it into mechanical energy. In February, we reviewed how a four ...

A carburetor is responsible for injecting the correct amounts of air and fuel into a gasoline engine to help it operate properly. The carburetor is designed with a tubular shaped center, and has an ...

Back in the days of carbureted and plentiful used Plymouth Satellites, B-52's frontman Fred sang of the devil in his car. Beehive sporting singer Kate did Fred one better by wailing that she had the ...

To most of us, emission control systems are some sort of "black art" devices that have been forced upon us to rob performance and ruin gas mileage, but that's really not the whole story. Air pollution ...

Have you ever wondered exactly what those articulating chunks of metal atop your intake manifold actually do? As a Gen Xer who was weaned on GM EFI systems, for years the inner workings of a ...