Long before electronic fuel injection or even performance Holley carburetors, high-end racers operating primarily at wide-open throttle used a purely mechanical, constant-flow fuel-injection system ...

Search the web for 'direct fuel injection history' and two prominent results will often materialise: Leon Levavasseur and the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Their prevalence is understandable. Levavasseur is ...

and was designed to offer a more consistent method of delivering fuel. How does mechanical fuel injection work? Early mechanical fuel systems typically relied on a complicated fuel pump that would ...

The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...

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 ...

What is gasoline direct injection and how is it different from traditional methods of getting fuel into your car's engine? Antuan Goodwin Senior Writer, Electrified Cars Antuan started out in the ...

Most new petrol cars you see today are equipped with fuel injection systems or injector motors. These have almost wholly supplanted older carburetor motors. They are more reliable, effective, and ...

Gasoline direct injection (GDI) continues to be a weapon in the technology armoury of automakers in their fight to reduce CO2. Manufacturers believe that homogeneous applications of GDI will be ...

Automakers have long touted the benefits of fuel injection, claiming increased efficiency and power. But as more cars have the system installed (around 73% in 2023), more and more consumers are ...

Despite advancements in hybrid power-trains and electrification technology, gasoline engines remain the predominant choice in passenger cars because of continued efficiency improvements, most recently ...