Gasoline engines burn a mixture of fuel and air. In order to create horsepower, your engine must maintain a good quantity and velocity of air/fuel charge into the combustion chamber. Think of the ...

It might seem that the intake manifold is one of the simplest components on an engine. After all, the purpose of the intake is to provide a series of passages to join the carburetor with the intake ...

A flagrant case of misaligned ports indicated by the carbon formations. During the course of building, modifying or merely "sharpening up" an overhead valve V8 engine, the question of intake port ...

Without question, cylinder-head porting is a science. The act of removing metal from the intake and exhaust ports to increase airflow has been used for decades, and in most cases, a skilled head ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 103, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS & LUBRICANTS (1994), pp. 853-868 (16 pages) The paper presents a computer simulation of flow and heat transfer phenomena in the intake port of a ...

Cylinder head porting is one of those garage mods that lives somewhere between speed-shop legend and flow-bench science. Also referred to as port and polish, the idea is simple: Open up the intake and ...