What's An Advance Curve?In the basic design of an internal combustion gasoline engine, an air/fuel mixture burns in the combustion chambers to force the pistons down, which in turn, spins the ...

The Advance CurveAll engines require an ignition curve based both on the requirements of engine rpm and cylinder filling (volumetric efficiency). This means that at 3,000 rpm with the throttle open ...

Your Mustang's distributor performs one heck of a job. It has to deliver a timed spark to each spark plug at precisely the right moment in sync with piston travel and crankshaft, camshaft, and valve ...

An engine is an air pump, and a lot of room for improvement can still be found in dealing with the way the engine handles that job. After generations of cars carrying just two valves, one for intake ...

Every engine has a means of coordinating the timing between the valve train and the rest of the engine. Some engines use a timing chain and some a timing belt. A timing belt has the relatively ...