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Originally Posted by FastMover
Are you a young guy? They were called carburetors, and we let them die (almost) for a whole lot of reasons: Vaporlock, carburator icing, ide jet adjustments, multi-jet balancing, inability to control fuel metering for individual cylinders -- just to name a few.
 They said that adjusting them was science -- more like a black art to a lot of us that tried to do it. |
(off-topic) you're joking right? Carbs did not vaporize the fuel. What carburators and fuel injectors do is more along the lines of atomizing the fuel. Basicly breaking it up from a large mass of liguid into tiny dropplettes of liquid. Vaporizing would turn the gasoline from a liquid to a gas form.
Maybe you just got the terms mixed up... And for the record, I loved tuning carburators. I loved going to the track, reading spark plugs, changing jets, power valve, accelerator pumps, etc. It's just not the same pluggin in the laptop to the race car, downloading fuel maps, and reading WBO2 logs, etc. (/offtopic)
-Fadi
1991 Mazda Miata to beat Corvettes at the track
1999 Dodge Ram to climb through rocks and brush
2004 Honda Civic Hybrid to make up for the other 2
