Automakers have long touted the benefits of fuel injection, claiming increased efficiency and power. But as more cars have the system installed (around 73% in 2023), more and more consumers are ...
What is gasoline direct injection and how is it different from traditional methods of getting fuel into your car's engine? You may have read or heard one of your favorite Car Tech editors talking ...
The other day I dropped my car off at a European specialist shop, and while I was there, a technician was working in the engine bay of a Mk7 Golf R, cleaning out carbon deposits off the intake valves.
When your service adviser recommends getting your fuel injection serviced, is it just a money grab? The answer depends on how your engine was made.
Until the early 1990s, many gasoline engine designs relied on carburetors to produce the fuel-air mixture needed to make the power that makes a car move. However, as the regulations around fuel ...
Function: pressure balanced 2/2 way direct acting coaxial valves, normally closed and normally open versions. Media: gaseous, liquid, gelatinous, highly viscous ...
If you flip through the list of features on just about any new car or truck, you’re likely to see the words “direct fuel injection,” or DI. The concept is straightforward enough -- engineers have ...
The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...
So we wake up one day and decide we want to throw a supercharger on the C7, and while we are there let’s throw a cam in it, too! The supercharger is an air pump in front of the air pump and its ...
Times are a-changin’, folks. 2010 was twelve years ago, and a lot of the affordable used performance cars available today are more technologically advanced than ever. And none of those technologies ...
At ConExpo 2023, Liebherr presented a hydrogen direct injection solution for heavy-duty combustion engines. With this technology, the company aims to achieve maximum power density equal to the one of ...