Over the past few years, we have run across some teams who, for the goal of attaining maximum power, chose to run without an alternator. We started thinking about that and decided to see if there were ...

An ignition coil takes voltage from the battery and multiplies it to create a spark at the spark plugs, which in turn ignites the engine. Cars have been using some form of the coil ignition system for ...

How’s this actually work? I’d be surprised (shocked) if such efficiency comes from just adding more energy to the ignition. This is no doubt a good thing but one thing the article didn't do is even ...