Buick's intercooled 1986 Turbo Regal is the quickest and fastest production car built in America, and that includes the cream of domestic performance cars: Mustang GT, 350 I ROC Camaro, and yes, even ...

If you think about it, trickery plays a big role in performance tuning. We fool the ECU into giving us more power with black boxes. We trick the fuel system into delivering more fuel by upping the ...

The 1977 Porsche 911 Turbo did not just add speed to an already quick sports car, it forced the entire idea of a road‑going ...

Back in the 1660s, chemist and physicist Robert Boyle discovered the connection between pressure (p), volume (V), and energy (K). He based his theories, which became known as Boyle’s Law, on his own ...

I was told by the workshop that my car has an intercooler and it is busted. What does this mean? Intercoolers are fitted to cars with superchargers or turbochargers. On these types of engines, the ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...