Producing More Engine Power Horsepower For a complete explanation of
what horsepower is and what horsepower means, check out How Horsepower Works.
Using
all of this information, you can begin to see that there are lots of
different ways to make an engine perform better. Car manufacturers are
constantly playing with all of the following variables to make an
engine more powerful and/or more fuel efficient. Increase displacement
- More displacement means more power because you can burn more gas
during each revolution of the engine. You can increase displacement by
making the cylinders bigger or by adding more cylinders. Twelve
cylinders seems to be the practical limit. Increase the compression ratio
- Higher compression ratios produce more power, up to a point. The more
you compress the air/fuel mixture, however, the more likely it is to
spontaneously burst into flame (before the spark plug ignites it).
Higher-octane gasolines prevent this sort of early combustion. That is
why high-performance cars generally need high-octane gasoline -- their
engines are using higher compression ratios to get more power. Stuff more
into each cylinder
- If you can cram more air (and therefore fuel) into a cylinder of a
given size, you can get more power from the cylinder (in the same way
that you would by increasing the size of the cylinder). Turbochargers
and superchargers pressurize the incoming air to effectively cram more
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you hear a car ad tell you the car has four cylinders and 16 valves, what the
ad is saying is that the engine has four valves per cylinder). If the exhaust
pipe is too small or the muffler has a lot of air resistance, this can cause
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- Compressing air raises its temperature. However, you would like to
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air is, the less it will expand when combustion takes place. Therefore,
many turbocharged and supercharged cars have an intercooler. An intercooler is
a special radiator through which the compressed air passes to cool it off
before it enters the cylinder. Let air come in more easily
- As a piston moves down in the intake stroke, air resistance can rob
power from the engine. Air resistance can be lessened dramatically by
putting two intake valves in each cylinder. Some newer cars are also
using polished intake manifolds to eliminate air resistance there.
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robs the engine of power. Air resistance can be lessened by adding a
second exhaust valve to each cylinder (a car with two intake and two
exhaust valves has four valves per cylinder, which improves performance
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valves, what the ad is saying is that the engine has four valves per
cylinder). If the exhaust pipe is too small or the muffler has a lot of
air resistance, this can cause back-pressure, which has the same
effect. High-performance exhaust systems use headers, big tail pipes
and free-flowing mufflers to eliminate back-pressure in the exhaust
system. When you hear that a car has "dual exhaust," the goal is to
improve the flow of exhaust by having two exhaust pipes instead of one.
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