On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:05:03 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
...

Guilty as charged. I haven't worked on engines much for years,
so I don't know when the switchover happened -- especially for
domestic
vehicles. The BMW 2002 had a carb. My Mazda GLCs had a carb. The
Mazda
B2600 I think had fuel injection, but I'm not sure. I do know that
it
had a real timing chain (like my MGAs had) instead of one of the
belts
which fail in some cars at awkward times -- or even slip without
failing, doing nasty things to the timing. :-) The Mazda Navajo
(actually a Ford Explorer) has fuel injection and a weird ignition
system. I'm not sure what my Nissan Cube has, but I like it. Lots
of
inside space and headroom, without taking too much outside space.
:-)

Enjoy,
DoN.


The first American fuel injection I saw was a pre-production
controller for the 1976 Seville in a GM lab.

Cheerystler had 'em in '58, if you can believe that! I was still
doing lots of tuneups and smog certs on carbureted engines in '85 when
I got out of the biz. Most new cars in the very late '70s were EFI,
though. I absolutely adore EFI. No more hesitation when you take off
in front of traffic every morning, no more carbon-fouled plugs, better
performance and gas mileage, etc.


--
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people, there is liberty."
Attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but Massah Ed, he doan tink it so.