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 ...

How the engine works nowadays had changed more rapidly and more extensively in the last few years than in the preceding decades. There's not a single new car in the country or probably on this planet, ...

Gregg Petersen's Hilborn-injected Chevette. The first thing you should understand is that direct-port, constant-flow fuel-injection—Hilborns, En-derles, Crowers, whatever—were never designed, nor ...

Bosch launched the first common rail system in 1997. The system is named after the shared high-pressure reservoir (common rail) that supplies all the cylinders with fuel. With conventional diesel ...

Vehicle fuel injectors are integral to a car's engine fuel delivery system. Fuel injectors are responsible for delivering the right fuel at the right time. Gasoline and diesel-powered engines of all ...

Picture an old windup desk clock. Now cross it with a gasoline engine, adding a tiny crankshaft and pistons. Tack on a few Buck Rogers bits, so it looks like Rube Goldberg's toaster. Flow gasoline ...