A battery in a traditional car cannot directly create engine spark. It’s only rated at 12 volts, after all, so it needs a little help boosting the signal to the spark plugs. To make that happen, a car ...

When a Kubota ZG23 zero-turn mower fails to start or hold a charge, the instinct is to blame the battery or the ignition ...

Over the past few years, we have run across some teams who, for the goal of attaining maximum power, chose to run without an alternator. We started thinking about that and decided to see if there were ...

Engine components produced during the '70s smog-era were oftentimes aimed at reducing emissions and typically had an adverse affect on performance, lending to their negative hobbyist perception. That ...

Heat initiates the internal combustion process. Diesel engines utilize the temperature buildup from extremely high compression (pressure) to ignite the air/fuel mixture, with a little help from glow ...