Port fuel injection has some big advantages, but automakers increasingly are using gasoline direct injection instead. The ...
What is gasoline direct injection and how is it different from traditional methods of getting fuel into your car's engine? Antuan Goodwin Senior Writer, Electrified Cars Antuan started out in the ...
Carburetors are old news. We've moved on to electronic fuel injection long ago. But of the two main varieties of fuel injection, port and direct, there hasn't been a clear winner as of late. Both ...
It's an amazing time when there's new technology in the industry as it forces a new rivalry in speed parts, and direct-injection is firmly in the high-performance arena whether anyone likes it or not.
The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...
If you flip through the list of features on just about any new car or truck, you’re likely to see the words “direct fuel injection,” or DI. The concept is straightforward enough -- engineers have ...
So we wake up one day and decide we want to throw a supercharger on the C7, and while we are there let’s throw a cam in it, too! The supercharger is an air pump in front of the air pump and its ...
As we entered into 2014, the industry was abuzz with the acronym “GDI,” otherwise known as Gasoline Direct Injection. The “gasoline” distinction is significant because direct injection has existed in ...
A cutaway image of a direct-injected BMW engine - Ton1~commonswiki/Wikimedia Commons Until the early 1990s, many gasoline engine designs relied on carburetors to produce the fuel-air mixture needed to ...