Carburetors may seem like a big mystery to a lot of people, and that makes sense. The sorts still used on cars almost exclusively in the aftermarket scene can appear complex, covered in linkages, ...

Nestled beneath the air cleaner on your car is a device that mixes gas and air. It's called a carburetor, and its job is a complex one. The job is complex because the necessary mixtures of air and ...

Carburetors are really marvelous devices. They have to be: They are required to meter air and fuel into the intake system of an engine in exactly the right proportions, whether the engine is idling, ...

Even though a carbureted vehicle hasn't rolled off the assembly line for more than a dozen years, that in no way means that carbs are dead. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, GPT300, ...

Carburetor combines gasoline and air in order to create a highly combustible mixture. For optimizing an engine's performance, it regulates the ratio of air and fuel as required under different ...

Carburetors are complicated mechanical contrivances, and can be difficult to understand for the uninitiated. They’re often explained with teaching resources like cutaway drawings and diagrams that ...

It's springtime! Time to start working on your project car, learn a new wrenching skill, discover what everything is under the hood (and how it works), or just spruce up your daily driver. All month, ...

We’ve all been there. You see a cool gadget on the Internet to 3D print and you can’t wait to fire up the old printer. Then you realize it will take 8 different prints over a span of 60 hours, ...

For many enthusiasts, the carburetor is some sort of black magic device that feeds an engine fuel to run. Short of bolting it on and maybe turning the base idle screw to keep the car running, few ...

The humble carburetor isn't used much in modern day automobiles. As far as we can tell most manufactures switched to electronic fuel injection in the late '80s, with the goofy Subaru Justy sporting ...

Back in the days of carbureted and plentiful used Plymouth Satellites, B-52's frontman Fred sang of the devil in his car. Beehive sporting singer Kate did Fred one better by wailing that she had the ...