Internal combustion engines are fairly simply machines. When you break it down, they are nothing more than air pumps. When it comes to making horsepower and torque, the simple fact is the more air you ...

Your intake manifold. It takes in air and sends it to your engine's combustion chamber. This is basically the start of the combustion process. After all, you can't have combustion without air.

While variable geometry engine air intakes were banned from Formula 1 in 2006, only to become legal again later on, you can find this technology in many road cars today. Typically, it goes by the term ...

Variable-length intake runners aren't a particularly new concept, but Ferrari's system in its LaFerrari is next-level fascinating. Let Engineering Explained give you the rundown. You see variable ...

A five-speed manual is standard, coupled to the familiar 1.5-liter four-cylinder with variable intake valve timing used in the Echo, Scion xA and xB. The engine, now rated at 106 hp at 6000 rpm and ...

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Form and Function - A Look at Intake Manifold Design: Intake manifolds play a huge part of power production, here’s some of the hows and whys Internal combustion engines are fairly simply machines.

Internal combustion engines are fairly simply machines. When you break it down, they are nothing more than air pumps. When it comes to making horsepower and torque, the simple fact is the more air you ...