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> History books show th petrol injection was "unable" to meet the new 1968
> emissions "laws" (guidelines?!?) and a pair of emission control Strombergs
> was hastily cobbled up. Everyone else got injection.
>I read somewhere that this was not the case, and the reason was that BL would
>haveproblems servicing the unit in the U.S, because the technicians were not
>trained on Lucas
>F.I. Apparently the injection unit had quite low emissions.
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I'd have to concur here. I find it hard to believe that any fuel injected
engine runs "dirtier" than a carburetted one. It was probably a logistics,
and possibly a financial, or monetary reason that the 'better', albeit more
costly fuel injection didn't make it to these shores. JMHO :-)
Barry Schwartz
bschwart@pacbell.net
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