Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. The process of walnut blasting, which entails cleaning the intake manifold and valves of a car’s engine with a high ...

The other day I dropped my car off at a European specialist shop, and while I was there, a technician was working in the engine bay of a Mk7 Golf R, cleaning out carbon deposits off the intake valves.

Valve gunk is nasty stuff that comes from the toxic vapor of steam, oil, gasoline and hydrocarbons circulating around the inside of your engine. A normal process of combustion in any gas powerplant, ...

There is no question that the DOHC 5.0L Coyote engine has taken Mustang performance to new levels, and the spotlight, but if you have a Three-Valve 4.6L, there are still a lot of performance options ...