An old classic car without computers is looking better and better. I can learn carbs.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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No need to go that far back, basic ECU fuel injectors + o2 sensors work perfectly fine without telemetry and are WAY more reliable than carburetors.
I don't like the ECU and sensors having the potential to make the car not run, but they do tend to make things more efficient and powerful at the same time.
If you don't like that, you'll really hate carbs not letting a car start.
Having grown up working on carb engines, you can pry my EFI from my cold, dead, intake.
Recently helped a friend with a simple 2 bbl carb issue. Ffs, carbs are black magic. They're really impressive 19th century engineering... It's amazing what those guys came up with to address changing conditions.
Carbs suck too. But electronics have a limited lifespan and are not easy to work on. On my 1995 F-150 an airbag module (circuit board thing) malfunctioned, and no one is making new ones. I needed it working to pass mandatory state inspection. Had to get a new module from a junkyard and it luckily worked, but that isn't viable long-term. Carbs, as much trouble as they are, are viable long-term.
Nope, venturis and jets are witchcraft.
What? All of that tracking data isn't just being used to make cars better? I am sure they'll fix this in the next mandatory update.
This is the #1 thing that is turning me off from being a car enthusiast by a mile. So even if you stay completely legal, abide by every traffic law, if you do some hard acceleration for fun, you're insurance bill is gonna go way up because the car is selling that data.
I love digital tech and I love a fun car but mix the two and you got a match made in hell.
then just be a car enthusiast for old cars and not new ones.
there's basically zero new (attainable) cars that inspire any kind of awe other than crazy supercars tbh.
And that's why I got into motorcycles, I can actually afford something fun :)
Hell yeah dude, motorbikes can be really good fun for cheap. Just don't get turned into pink paste on the front of a Peterbilt and it's good.
I could never get into highway bikes, I don't trust local drivers that much... I've definitely got plans to get myself a dirt bike though, had one a long time ago as a young teen and want to get back into it.
Mozilla runs a project to rate the privacy policies of major products and brands.
Car manufacturers absolutely dominate the bottom of the list. They hoover up absurd amounts of deeply personal information and grant themselves the right to do basically anything they want with it.