This is exactly what I am talking about; Government mandating something that
even ordinary hot rodders know is wrong and deficient. All of the tanks
that people drove in the 60' and before got 20 miles to the gallon and
everything after about '72 got ten. The science to that madness is that the
government people may have given a mandate that was faulty and deficient but
they sure felt good about doing it even if they knew it would be wrong. It
is kind of like Chrysler buying Rootes to make Tigers with their engine and
then finding out it won't fit. Why didn't they ask some 16 year old hot rod
kid. He could have told them. Y2K----Global Cooling--- uhhh global warming
anyone. -- Bill --
Many of the early 70 General Motors cars helped meet the new emission
standards by not allowing vacuum advance in the first 2 gears (3 speed
standard).
They has a solenoid in the vacuum line that only opened when you shifted
into
3 rd gear. Also on the 6 cyl. that I was familiar with they had changed
the
timing from 8 before to 2 degrees.
Well, a piece of rubber hose to by pass the solenoid and a change of the
timing back to the old setting and the 'in town" mileage went from 10 mpg
to 16.
I could never figure out the science behind that technical madness. How
could there be less pollution if someone was using 50% more gas;-)
Thankfully
they have overcome the problems. We now have pretty darn good gas mileage
and create very little pollution.
mark
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