These classic cars asked owners to actually understand engines, not just start them.

If you are in the midst of a good old fashioned bench racing session about your favorite high performance engine, at some point the name Holley is bound to turn up. As talk turns to Holley carburetors ...

Carb Day kicks off the Memorial Day weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with the final Indianapolis 500 practice, a pit stop challenge and a concert. It's a perfect day to get into the spirit of ...

Proper carburetor sizing and selection has been the topic of bench racing longer than most of us can remember. However, there is one fundamental truth when it comes to carburetor sizing and selection; ...

General Motors eliminated carburetors from its entire passenger car lineup by 1990, ending an 80-year reign of American fuel delivery technology. Federal emissions mandates and the 1970s fuel crisis ...

I have been working on my 1966 Chevy Nova II. I recently replaced the fuel pump (mechanical), all filters, all spark plugs and liquids. I’ve also tried tuning the idle speed and idle mixture screws on ...

Internal combustion engines have often been described (quite correctly) as air pumps, and because of this nature, they tend to respond very well to more air. Why? Because more air means more fuel, and ...

It’s one thing to know roughly what’s happening inside of a carburetor but it’s another thing entirely to see in enormous detail how every stroke of the engine affects it. Fortunately, we live in a ...

Cleaning a carburetor is an important step in preventative maintenance on cars, trucks, motorcycles, and small engines. The procedure can often be done when the carburetor is still on the engine, but ...

During the golden years of muscle cars, when electronic fuel injection was more like witchcraft than the common feature it is today, engineers used triple-carburetor setups as one method to extract ...

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 ...