I understand the basics of fuel injection; my Ford F-150 EcoBoost, however, is direct injected. What's the difference? – Jim Traditional multiport fuel-injection systems use an in-tank pump to ...

Zak is new to the CarBuzz team, working as a freelance content writer. When Zak isn't writing How To articles for CarBuzz he's working as a high school automotive technology instructor. Before ...

Anyone who has gone to school to learn how to repair engines of all types, such as myself, will have learned the fundamentals of how they work. It's crucial for troubleshooting and diagnosing engine ...

Automobile engines have undergone tons of changes over the years, primarily to make them more efficient. For the most part though, engine changes result from a string of iterative improvements on ...

Here’s how you started a car with a carburetor on a cold morning back in the “good old days.” You’d pull out the choke, pump the throttle a few times, and turn the key. If you didn’t overdo it and ...

Gregg Petersen's Hilborn-injected Chevette. The first thing you should understand is that direct-port, constant-flow fuel-injection—Hilborns, En-derles, Crowers, whatever—were never designed, nor ...

Barring electric vehicles, each and every vehicle needs some sort of combustible fuel. Until about four decades ago, almost every passenger car used a carburetor to handle its air and fuel needs. It ...

Back when Shelby was looking to make its little Cobras go faster, it turned to multiple carburetion in the form of a quartet of downdraft Weber carburetors. Not only did having eight individual ...

The fuel pump is critical to your vehicle's running, but not fixing or replacing a broken one can be a safety risk.