SAE International Journal of Engines, Vol. 9, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 964-978 (15 pages) ABSTRACT Negative Valve Overlap (NVO) is a potential control strategy for enabling Low-Temperature Gasoline ...

Automobile engines have undergone tons of changes over the years, primarily to make them more efficient. For the most part though, engine changes result from a string of iterative improvements on ...

Q: I have a 2009 VW with gasoline direct inject and a 2.0-liter turbo engine. It recently needed the intake valves cleaned (a very costly job) after just 54,000 miles. I understand many manufacturers ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 108, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (1999), pp. 2185-2201 (17 pages) Numerical simulations are performed to investigate the fuei/air mixing preparation in a gasoline ...

There's a new acronym floating around the performance industry—GDI—and it stands for gasoline direct injection. Among domestic production engines that have jumped heavily into the GDI segment are the ...