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Old 10-15-2009, 10:02 AM   #20
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Drives: '69 Yenko Camaro - 11.73 @ 118
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Missouri
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I know this is unfathomable to folks who have known nothing but efi'd cars their entire life (I'm not point at anyone particular), but y'all are forgetting that the older cars don't have a computer doing all the *tuning* work for you...you actually had to get your hands dirty! Change altitude, change weather conditions, etc...think the same jetting for a car in Denver is safe for the same car at E-town? Hey, guess what, there's no friggin' computer to do the ditry work, so you're gonna have to pop the hood and turn a wrench just to keep it tuned up, or possibly even hurting soemthing. Points, plugs, cap/rotor, dwell/timing, jetting, valve lash...that was all routine *maintenance* back in the day...now, nearly everything on that list is handled by the ecm without the owner even having a clue it's being done.
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