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.
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 ...
Engineers put a lot of hours into making the 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel a segment leader in EPA-estimated highway mileage. And one of the tricks they used to get there was something ...
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Variable intake manifolds & intake tuning

How To Tune Intakes For More Horsepower Intake manifold tuning is critical for ensuring optimum horsepower across a wide rev range. Longer, narrower intake runners lend themselves well to low RPM ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sometimes theory is neat, but sometimes it fails to describe what actually takes place. The theory of internal combustion engines falls into this category, especially with respect to the function of ...
In last month's "Tech Scene," we compared the differences between Toyota's VVTL-i (Variable Valve Timing and Lift-intelligence) and Honda's VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and lift Electronic Control).
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.