Ferrari S.p.A has filed a patent application with the European Patent Office for a forced-induction four-cylinder engine with an electrically operated turbocharger. This engine sounds different from ...

The tuning world has spawned a lot of evil breeds, and by this we mean motley methods of vastly increasing the power of an internal combustion engine. Apart from the mechanically-driven supercharger, ...

With the 2016 model year bikes being forced to meet the Euro 4 emission standards, the manufacturers have a big problem. In certain cases, new engines might be needed, and Ducati's superbike L-twin is ...

Forced induction is the only way to get a 1.5L four-cylinder engine to wheeze out as much air as and behave more like a V8 twice its size. Out of the multiple types of forced induction, (supercharging ...

Honda has revealed the first V-3 engine ever with force induction, and an electric one at that. Not only is it a looker, but the water-cooled engine arranges three pistons in a 75-degree vee—two ...

In the simplest of terms, an engine is nothing more than an air pump. Air from the atmosphere is drawn through the throttle body (or carb), into the intake manifold, where it is mixed with fuel (this ...