Running boost through a carburetor is nothing new, but what is groundbreaking is blowing boosted, sub-freezing air through a carburetor. In case you missed the previous tech pieces in HOT ROD magazine ...

Lead photo shows a RamAire installation on a Chevy six, using one compressor belt. Acceleration was increased to match V8, but with the original fuel economy of the six. Production installation could ...

Ford has filed a patent for an electric supercharger that could double as an on-board compressor pump or vacuum pump. The patent describes an electric supercharger with a valve that would block the ...

A lot has changed in seven years.

In their unending quest for a competitive edge, automakers will dream up some truly out-there patent applications just to preempt anyone else with the same idea and claim the technology or technique ...

Understand the real difference between a Procharger and a supercharger. Learn how each boosts performance, power delivery, ...

Ever since the internal combustion engine became the weapon of choice (read: means of propulsion) in just about every automobile there's been an ongoing silent war carried between two different yet ...

You must have often heard automotive nerds talking of terms like turbochargers and superchargers. And from the sound of it, you guess that it has something to do with enhancing the performance of the ...

At the 2016 Tokyo Motor Show, Kawasaki revealed a supercharger concept that claimed to have fine-tuned the compressor technology in its motorcycles to create increased performance, better power ...