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I have to ask a question. 200 1981

The US manufacturers pretty much abandoned carburetors on passenger cars in the late 1970s. The need for closed-loop control on the air/fuel mixture made carburetors cost as much as fuel injection systems, and they were more troublesome and didn't perform as well, so there was no point in using carburetors any more. The Japanese used carbs in the low-end models into the 1980s. 3/4 ton pickups and heavier vehicles used carburetors much later (they may still be using them for all I know) In passenger cars, the last carbureted model that I am aware of (if memory serves) was the 1988 Toyota Corolla/Geo Prizm.

If any other old-timer reads this, they will probably point out myriad exceptions to the above.






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New condenser ?'s [200][1981]
posted by  someone claiming to be eric laidlaw  on Sun Feb 16 15:26 CST 2003 >


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