It's springtime! Time to start working on your project car, learn a new wrenching skill, discover what everything is under the hood (and how it works), or just spruce up your daily driver. All month, ...

In this age of computerized fuel injection systems, many people have written off carburetors as relics of a bygone era. Lacking the array of electronic sensors that allows fuel injection to more ...

It's been nearly 20 years since the OEs fully transitioned to EFI, and aftermarket EFI systems are becoming more affordable and easier to tune by the day. Even so, the carburetor remains the fuel ...

A carburetor is responsible for injecting the correct amounts of air and fuel into a gasoline engine to help it operate properly. The carburetor is designed with a tubular shaped center, and has an ...

Weber, Holley, SU, Carter and Q-Jet. Any gearhead heard at least once about one of those terms and for those who didn't, the previously mentioned are the best-known brands of carburetors in the ...

It's safe to say that just about every person reading this magazine has built, driven, worked on, or tampered with at least a few cars in your lifetime that were equipped with a carburetor. In most ...

Carburetors are complicated mechanical contrivances, and can be difficult to understand for the uninitiated. They’re often explained with teaching resources like cutaway drawings and diagrams that ...

Carburetors with vacuum lines are still found on classic vehicles and small-displacement engines — but what is the vacuum actually used for? Let's take a look.

Testing carburetors on an engine dyno can sometimes be misleading. We've all seen tests showing large-cfm carburetors making more power—even on a small engine that nobody in their right mind would run ...