Tighter emmisions standards

67Dart273 said

Believe me, if the manufacturers could have done this easier and simplier, "they would have." Honda, for example, experimented with (don't remember what it was called) a separate burn chamber in the head. Basically, the car manufacturers were brought kicking and screaming to the "emissions table" just like they were brought "kicking and screaming" to the "safety table."

Nobody cared about "you." "They" that is, "the thems" only cared about emissions (govt) and "the bottom line" (manufacturers)

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CVCC
Controlled Vortex Combustion Chamber.

My family and I owned several of these little civics. They were great little gas sippers. We could pick them up for a 100 bucks used with blown head gaskets. The cylinder heads would "Walk" and blow. The fix it was a gasket that allowed for this. The little carbs that came on them were part of the success of the engine, but they were junk if they got clogged. My dad replaced one with a Webber on my sisters and it was little rocket.

My current smog problem here in Kalifornia is my 99 Dakota R/T. It barely failed the smog test. I wanted a new cat for it but they do not make them anymore! They stopped making them a few years ago and they were like $1200! So now my $25,000. truck sits in the driveway with no way to register it with out throwing myself on the mercy of the California air resources board smog referee station. :banghead: