When it comes to carburetor tuning, there is literally "no substitute for experience." The most successful tuners possess a near-instinctual "feel" for fuel system problems, based on their years of ...

During the late '90s, carburetor tuning and modifying received something of a jolt when Barry Grant introduced his racing four-barrel, the Demon. The innovations included streamlined air intakes, ...

The last time we talked about carburetors, we focused on getting the idle mixture and speed in line. But that’s not all that a carb requires of its owner. Having your idle in line doesn’t mean the car ...

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither were carburetors. Just like the ancient Roman aqueducts achieved a technically demanding task using archaic resources, the carburetor was designed to perform ...

A lambda probe (or oxygen sensor) can be found on the exhaust system of most cars running on unleaded fuel. Having reached its normal operating temperature (of about 600 degrees Celsius!) the lambda ...

In this age of computerized fuel injection systems, many people have written off carburetors as relics of a bygone era. Lacking the array of electronic sensors that allows fuel injection to more ...