Valve gunk is nasty stuff that comes from the toxic vapor of steam, oil, gasoline and hydrocarbons circulating around the inside of your engine. A normal process of combustion in any gas powerplant, ...
Direct injection. Just about every car has it now, and those that don’t probably will in the next few years. It can add power, reduce emissions, and is a big part of why just about everybody is ...
Incomplete gasoline combustion can lead to your car running rough, and in the worst cases, can seriously damage engine ...
Direct fuel injection is creeping into more mainstream vehicles these days and it can have an inherent fault we need to be aware of. First, what is direct injection? Direct fuel injection on gasoline ...
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 ...
GM Powertrain announced today it will deliver a 3.6-liter V-6 gasoline engine with direct injection and variable valve timing (VVT) technologies in the 2008 model year. A vehicle application will be ...
What is gasoline direct injection and how is it different from traditional methods of getting fuel into your car's engine? Antuan Goodwin Senior Writer, Electrified Cars Antuan started out in the ...
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 ...
I started driving when the vast majority of cars still had points ignitions. I've lived through the mid-'70s transition to electronic ignitions, then 10 years later had to learn a bunch of new tricks ...
Powertrain experts have been touting gasoline direct-injection engines for many years. As has been the case with automated cars and carbon-fiber construction, the passage of time hasn't brought this ...
Carbon buildup can create some big issues while you're driving. A few engine parts are more susceptible to it than others, so ...