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.

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 ...

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 ...

Is an intake manifold an important part of a performance LS build? The answer is, obviously, yes. One need only look at the peak power difference between the least and most powerful intakes in this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...