ECU tuning is one of the easiest ways to get some more horsepower out of your engine in modern cars. The ECU, or the engine control unit, is essentially the brains of the vehicle, and it controls all ...

The check engine light just came on with my 2014 Forester. At the same time, another warning light came on of a car with two zigzag lines behind it.

Code P0720 is one of the OBD codes that is activated when the Powertrain Control Module (PCM) detects erratic or insufficient input from the output shaft sensor (OSS). Such a code generally indicates ...

Once upon a time an engine needed three things to run: fuel, air, and fire. That's what carbs, coils, and distributors are for. Modern EFI engines still need these three elements, but they use ...

The paper presents the development of a methodology for the evaluation of the Wide-Open-Throttle (WOT) torque production when the engine is running free. Under such conditions the engine speed shows a ...

An experimental test of a non-contact method for determining simultaneously the pressure in each cylinder of a reciprocating engine is reported. The method exploits a pattern recognition technique to ...