If you think about it, there are things about your car that just don’t make sense. You’ve been told that more air is a good thing for power, that a cold air intake, more scoops, more vents, etc, are a ...

For most gearheads, there's nothing quite thrilling like the roar of a tuned engine and the instant kick of improved acceleration. Of course, buying a muscle car to enjoy lots of raw power and torque ...

In a naturally aspirated engine, as air comes in through the intake and passes through the throttle body, you've traditionally had two setups for what happens next. Using longer, narrower intake ...

A performance intake manifold ranks as the leading bolt-on upgrade in a performance-minded build. Good examples can work wonders, while the wrong choice can spell doom to the combination. The ...

This became an obsession. We blame eBay. Once we'd purchased one or two cheap and collectible intakes online we became transfixed, recklessly bidding for the next screamin' deal or oddball intake. By ...

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.

Popping the hood of a new Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing must have been quite an experience for most enthusiasts in the Fifties. For starters, the 3.0-liter straight-six sat canted at a fifty degree ...

When introduced for the '05 model year, the C6 received the evolutionary Gen IV LS2 powerplant, which carried ratings of 400 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque. While the new engine's cylinder heads ...

Gasoline engines burn a mixture of fuel and air. In order to create horsepower, your engine must maintain a good quantity and velocity of air/fuel charge into the combustion chamber. Think of the ...

When I first started to dive into the carbs on my 1985 Honda VF500F Interceptor, there were a few things I was nervous about. I didn't expect them to be super gunky inside, because although I had an ...

With intake manifolds made of polypropylene (PP), Röchling Automotive (Mannheim, Germany) says it has set new benchmarks in terms of cost, weight, and acoustics. These three criteria have been ...