There's no shortage of opinions in this hobby, and they are usually founded on nothing more than an individual's personal experience. The theory of what makes an engine run is hardly ever applied.

In a perfect world there would be no need for ignition advance curves. As soon as the piston in your vintage Vette reached top dead center and the engine built maximum compression, you'd be able to ...

THE increased sensitivity of the modern high-compression engine to ignition timing, to-gether with the use of vacuum-controlled distributor advance, has emphasized the need of an accurate ...

ABSTRACT The technology to estimate engine load using the amplitude of crankshaft angular velocity variation during a cycle, which is referred to as “Δω (delta omega)”, in a four-stroke ...

There's a tiny silver can on the side of most distributors that is easily the most misunderstood component of any distributor-based ignition system. Feared by many, and ignored by many more, the ...