Your engine feels calm at a stoplight because a hidden idle system keeps fuel, air, and spark in balance. That quiet ...

When Ford (in conjunction with International) converted the 7.3L IDI engine from mechanical to the hydraulically actuated electronically controlled unit injection (HEUI) system, the Power Stroke brand ...

Unless we're talking about the '68 Ranchero that your Uncle Hank lives out of, every car needs some sort of ECU (engine control unit) to tell each of its engine's moving parts what to do and how to ...

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 ...

Discover how MotoGP electronics, from ECUs to traction control and engine braking management, enhance performance, safety and speed in the most exciting sport on earth.

General Motors has issued a service update for certain examples of the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickup trucks equipped with the 6.6L L5P V8 Duramax diesel engine due to an issue related to ...

If you’ve never heard the term flashing an ECU before, no, it’s not showing a form of identification or using a photo flash—or any other type of flashing for that matter. Flashing an ECU is tuning or ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (iSeeCars) – There are a lot of mechanical ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (iSeeCars) – There are a lot of mechanical ...

For his PhD at the University of Michigan, [Adam] designed a Raspberry Pi-based system that controls an HCCI engine, a type of engine which combines the merits of both diesel and gasoline engines.

Your car’s engine is an amazing feat of engineering, but it doesn’t take much to cause problems with the way it runs. Too much air, too little fuel, a field mouse making the engine bay it home, and ...