Vegetables grown for their underground parts have tasty roots, tubers, rhizomes, or bulbs. These structures are packed with carbohydrates and water for the plants, and deliciousness for us. These ...

While corn is a grass with a fibrous-type root system, some companies are digging deeper to learn more about roots. Generally speaking, those companies classify roots into three types: Fibrous: A mop ...

A naturally aspirated (read that as carbureted) engine relies on the combustion cycle's intake stroke and the scavenging effect of the exhaust as a means to draw air and atomized fuel through the ...

Keep camshaft duration short with supercharging, otherwise boost will just blow the mixture right out the exhaust port. Show me a Mustanger who doesn't place a supercharger high on his wish list, and ...

â ¢GMC Roots type blower with dual updraft aircraft carburetion and two Thompson "Vitameter" water-alcohol injectors. •Judson eccentric vane supercharger, a positive displacement type for Ford-Merc.

The ability of rice plants to modify their root systems to adapt to the surrounding soil water conditions is a great example of a phenomenon called phenotype plasticity. However, the exact mechanism ...

Only the strong survive in the increasingly tough world of nostalgia racing. In the beginning, Boyce Asquith thought it would be fun to race his '32 highboy at the nostalgia drags. But soon Fat Jack's ...

Gearheads chase horsepower like it's a search for the Holy Grail. Anything and everything that can make a car go faster, we will try, including slapping an engine-driven air pump under the hood. Or, ...