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The choke valve in an engine's carburetor, whether it's a Holley carburetor or another brand, helps a cold engine start by restricting some of the airflow into it. When the engine is cold, the choke ...
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The first production car engine with variable valve timing (VVT) came from Alfa Romeo in 1980. It was installed in the fuel-injected Alfa Romeo Spider. Before this, a few experimental systems existed, ...
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Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he started working his way through the echelons of the automotive industry, starting out as social-media ...
SAE Transactions, Vol. 112, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (2003), pp. 2174-2189 (16 pages) In internal combustion engines, particularly for spark ignition (SI) engines, valve events and their timings ...