Sounds like one of those energy drinks. And in a way, it is. It’s the new ingredient BP is touting in its gasoline to clean intake valves to keep your engine humming. Though we don’t know exactly what ...

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, ...

'Breathe in . . . breathe out. Simple respiration is what keeps us alive, and your engine is no different. On a normally aspirated engine, atmospheric pressure pushes air in through the carb, intake ...