The carburetor didn't fade away — it was federally regulated out of existence.

The question of which is better, carburetion or fuel injection, really comes down to cost versus performance. Overall, more torque can usually be produced by a longer ...

Most drivers today couldn't rebuild one, but their fathers probably could.

Cutaway of Chev engine showing fuel injection components. Air meter, right, picks up vacuum signals in venturi and transmits them to diaphragms in fuel meter on right. With all the noise currently ...

Fuel injection, it’s the wave of the future. Well, at least it was in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was really the dark ages of fuel delivery in cars and trucks. Carburetors worked pretty well ...

Don't get us wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a carburetor. These largely mechanical devices have delivered precise amounts of air and fuel into engines from the very first internal ...