The other day I dropped my car off at a European specialist shop, and while I was there, a technician was working in the engine bay of a Mk7 Golf R, cleaning out carbon deposits off the intake valves.

The Ecotec3 L83 is a light truck version of the fifth-generation small block Chevy engine. It is found in the 2014-2019 Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 pick-ups as well as the 2015-2019 Suburban, ...

Direct injection motors are the new cool kids on the block and it's becoming more an more common on newer cars. What is direct injection? Should I be afraid of it? This video from Savagegeese explains ...

The internal combustion gasoline engine -- we have a love/hate relationship with it. It creates a lot of pollution. It is incredibly inefficient. It spews carbon into the atmosphere. It makes us ...

There's a new acronym floating around the performance industry—GDI—and it stands for gasoline direct injection. Among domestic production engines that have jumped heavily into the GDI segment are the ...

Assuming you have gotten past the concept that fuel is now shot directly into the combustion chamber, let’s talk about what happens next. The chamber on a Gen V engine has been designed with over a ...

Every new car sold in the United States today uses fuel injection, but not all fuel injection systems are the same. Some cars use port injection, while others use direct injection. Some even use both.

Lots of new car engines these days are built with both port and direct fuel injection. On the surface, that might not make much sense. Why would a carmaker use two different types of injection methods ...