How Your Engine WorksDid you try to opened the hood of your car and wondered what was going on there? Your engine might look like a big pile of metal, tubes and wires to the untrained eye. You might want to know what's going on simply out of curiosity. Or maybe you want to buy a new car, and you hear things like "3.0 liter V-6" and "dual overhead cams" and "tuned port fuel injection." What does all of that mean?
We will tell you the basic idea behind an engine and then go into detail about how all it's pieces fit together, what can go wrong and how to obtain a better performance. A gasoline car engine converts gasoline into motion so that your car can move. Currently the easiest way to create motion from gasoline is to burn the gasoline inside an engine. So, a car engine is more like an internal combustion engine.
