I started working on cars before I could actually drive them . . . legally. I spent countless hours learning the intricacies of things, such as how much voltage it takes to make your arm go numb by ...

A lambda probe (or oxygen sensor) can be found on the exhaust system of most cars running on unleaded fuel. Having reached its normal operating temperature (of about 600 degrees Celsius!) the lambda ...

Nowadays that every modern car drips with electronic nannies, throttle-by-wire, and enough sensors to make a NASA engineer dizzy, there’s something beautifully savage about a carburetor. No OBD-II ...

When people talk about the air/fuel ratio of their engine, do you get confused? Do they really know what they're talking about, or did they just hear someone mention it in another conversation?

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither were carburetors. Just like the ancient Roman aqueducts achieved a technically demanding task using archaic resources, the carburetor was designed to perform ...