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.

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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 ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global automotive variable intake air control (AVIAC) valve market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 6% during the forecast period, according to Technavio’s latest ...

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 ...

If you were to remove the hybrid trickery of the Ferrari LaFerrari, you’d be left with a naturally-aspirated 6.3-liter V12 engine delivering a remarkable 800 hp. Making an atmospheric V12 for the road ...

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 ...

A variety of two-stage, or discrete, variable valve lift (DVVL) and continuously variable valve lift (CVVL) systems have recently been incorporated in production vehicles. Several systems that have ...

Among Honda's many technologies, none ranks as synonymous with the brand as VTEC. The company's unique, dynamically adjustable valvetrain is, in large part, what helped make '90s-era Civics and ...

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 ...