Most people think they spend too much time with the TV, but when it comes to Bow-Tie hot rodders, the exact opposite is true. If you have a carbureted engine backed with a TH700-R4 or TH200-4R ...

You probably see automatic transmissions as a convoluted maze of gears, clutches, bands, and complicated hydraulics. However, it may surprise you to know that most automatic transmissions work via a ...

"Kickdown" and "TV" cables aren't really the same thing. Let's take it from the top: Many old-school automatic transmissions use both a governor and a vacuum modulator to help regulate automatic shift ...

A throttle has come to be associated with any part that controls the power of an engine - such as the accelerator pedal - but in actual fact it is a hydraulically operated mechanism used to increase ...

One of the turbo engine's most iconic sounds is called the turbo flutter. That "stu-tu-tu-tu" sound the Nissan Skyline GTR R34 makes as the throttle closes is the sound of compressed air escaping past ...

Gasoline is volatile when vaporized with oxygen. As a motor fuel, gasoline burns best at a ratio of 14.7:1-roughly 14.7 pounds of air to each pound of gasoline. This optimal burn, known as ...

Bosch is claiming a worldwide first by starting production of a throttle body for petrol engines produced from composite material. The new component weighs 25 per cent less, as well as being more ...