#increased engine performance

[dixiecap-blog]

IT’Squite amazing how far the human mind will travel to avoid reality, especially if that reality is starkand unrelenting. Faced with a need to make change, hard decisions or sacrifice, we will almost always procrastinate, or rationalize, or equivocate. If the news is particularly desperate, we’ll seek the sanctuary of any evangelist/shaman/sidewalk fortune-teller willing to convince us, however briefly, that everything will be all right. Indeed, I suspect the old adage that “statistics don’t lie but liars use statistics” is more a reflection of our desperation to believe untruths rather than the deceiver’s desire to perpetrate them.

[dixiecap-blog]

FIAT may not be common right now to North America, but they do have a big presence in other parts of the world. Now, with their investment in Chrysler, we are going to see some of their technology come to our shores and one of the interesting ones is called MultiAir. MultiAir is an innovative method of engine control that can regulate the air entering a cylinder with the engine valve opening to control Everything from engine idle to exhaust emissions. Other companies have tried this concept in the past but using different designs. One of the more successful is BMW’s Valvetronic system, which uses electric motors to move eccentrics that will vary valve lift.