If you flip through the list of features on just about any new car or truck, you’re likely to see the words “direct fuel injection,” or DI. The concept is straightforward enough -- engineers have ...

Port fuel injection (PFI) was a major milestone in the early '80s. The integration of PFI rapidly changed the way fuel was delivered by increasing fuel economy and improving engine performance. Even ...

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 ...

The power, fuel efficiency, and longevity of an engine will heavily depend on the fuel that’s being delivered. Furthermore, an engine’s efficiency is dependent on a precisely calculated air-to-fuel ...

Modern engines are cleaner and more efficient than the ones you grew up with, yet many drivers are discovering a new headache ...

Valve gunk is nasty stuff that comes from the toxic vapor of steam, oil, gasoline and hydrocarbons circulating around the inside of your engine. A normal process of combustion in any gas powerplant, ...

The heart of most vehicles today, the internal combustion engine has advanced significantly over its century long history. This series outlines some of the key innovations in engine technology before ...

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 ...

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 ...