The key ingredient to maximizing the peak performance of a diesel engine is increasing the amount of diesel being burned. On old mechanical-injection engines, the only way to do this was to modify the ...

Q: I have a 2009 VW with gasoline direct inject and a 2.0-liter turbo engine. It recently needed the intake valves cleaned (a very costly job) after just 54,000 miles. I understand many manufacturers ...

High-pressure common rail fuel (HPCR) systems are standard on nearly every diesel engine today, from heavy equipment to over-the-road trucks, light-duty trucks, large generators and more. HPCR fuel ...

2003 - PACE Award Winner Siemens VDO Automotive What: Piezo Common Rail Diesel Direct Injection System Judge's Citation: With Siemens’ Piezo Common Rail Diesel Direct Injection System, the company ...

It's tempting to swap a carburetor for more modern electronic fuel injection. But while such a move can improve your car, it ...

An experimental study of spray structures from a regular dual-stream (RDS) injector and an air-shrouding dual-stream (ASDS) injector was carried out extensively to understand the spray characteristics ...