[Shop-talk] Of mice and...Jeeps!

[David Scheidt]

On 9/16/07, Wayne <wmc_st at xxiii.com> wrote:
> malaboge at aol.com wrote:

> > Whatever happened to carbs and points.....
>
> Do you really need to ask? They suck and they're long gone. Good Riddance.
>
Dang right!

> Actually, I brought the topic up on another mailing list -- "what was
> the last vehicle sold in the US with a carb" and somehow a couple guys
> determined it was the 1991 Subaru Justy.

That's about right.  Subaru had some really funky carbs.
>
> Honda has engine management down so well, my 2006 Acura RSX doesn't even
> have an EGR valve :) No pollution controls on the thing other than the
> cat'. Makes for a nice clean engine compartment; 200HP from 122 cubes
> is cool, as is 11:1 compression on pump gas. In fact, it has the fewest
> smog devices of any car I've ever owned, and that's going back to a 1973
> Olds Cutlass.

It's got oxygen sensors.  It's got EVAP stuff.  And it's got that computer.
-- 
David Scheidt
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