The key ingredient to maximizing the peak performance of a diesel engine is increasing the amount of diesel being burned. On old mechanical-injection engines, the only way to do this was to modify the ...

Ford EFI pickups and Broncos from the late ’80s through the mid ’90s had their fuel pumps located in the tanks. When a pump dies or the filter gets plugged from rust and years of use — and they’re ...

Picture an old windup desk clock. Now cross it with a gasoline engine, adding a tiny crankshaft and pistons. Tack on a few Buck Rogers bits, so it looks like Rube Goldberg's toaster. Flow gasoline ...

You've seen it at the dragstrip, at car shows, and on rare occasion, at the local cruise spot. Retro stacks and mechanical fuel injection are hot, but magazines are duty bound to say, "You can't drive ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1995), pp. 112-127 (16 pages) A computer model solving the 1-D flow in a typical fuel injection system for direct-injection diesel engines is ...