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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It might seem that the intake manifold is one of the simplest components on an engine. After all, the purpose of the intake is to provide a series of passages to join the carburetor with the intake ...

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 ...