Mechanics poking around a Ford Lightning

[TryHard]

'63 Corvette was fuel injected....

Mechanical fuel injection. A large air-door/flap in front of the throttle body connected to a fuel valve functioned as a mass air flow sensor of sorts and it was a "constant spray" type of injection where the injectors spray fuel on all 4 strokes (360 degrees) regardless of intake valve position.

The Rochester mechanical fuel injection was an option on 283 and 327 small block chevys  from 57-65 in more than  just the corvette.


Nothing wrong with modern Sequential fuel injection, a big part of what i do for a living is tuning late model cars (mostly GM but some ford and dodge) and with the technology and computing power nowadays you can really squeeze every ounce of power out of an engine on the ragged edge of blowing with the closed loop fueling, twin independent variable cam timing, knock sensors per cylinder making sure that a 2.7 liter turbocharged gas engine in a 6,000 lbs pickup truck lives (looking at you ford ecoboost) while making 400 ft lbs of torque.

But for me I'm just fine with 4 speed overdrive transmissions and port fuel injection with a damn throttle cable connected to the throttle body and not an electric sensor and motor failure waiting to happen. And my daily driver is a 97 K15 chevy with a 383 small block with a double pumper on it and ill take the 15 mpg on the highway for the mechanical simplicity of it all, can't fix a hung injector in the middle of the swamp 2 hours from the nearest closed autoparts store.

[bj229r]

Cali is leaning hard on gas right now with their electricity shortage.

Not so much this area

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-27/get-ready-for-electric-stoves-los-angeles-bans-natual-gas-in-most-new-homes

Citing the climate crisis, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to ban most gas appliances in new construction, a policy that’s expected to result in new homes and businesses coming equipped with electric stoves, clothes dryers, water heaters and furnaces.

More than 50 California cities and counties have adopted similar rules banning or discouraging gas hookups in new homes and other buildings. The nation’s second-largest city was late to the game, said Councilmember Nithya Raman, the policy’s lead author — but no longer.

Friday’s vote “puts us in line with climate leaders across the country,” she said in an interview.

[Shuffler]

Not so much this area

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-27/get-ready-for-electric-stoves-los-angeles-bans-natual-gas-in-most-new-homes

Citing the climate crisis, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to ban most gas appliances in new construction, a policy that’s expected to result in new homes and businesses coming equipped with electric stoves, clothes dryers, water heaters and furnaces.

More than 50 California cities and counties have adopted similar rules banning or discouraging gas hookups in new homes and other buildings. The nation’s second-largest city was late to the game, said Councilmember Nithya Raman, the policy’s lead author — but no longer.

Friday’s vote “puts us in line with climate leaders across the country,” she said in an interview.

Yes Cali is leaning heavily on gas to make electricity now.
Many stories on it..... this is but one...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/07/california-heat-wave-climate-electricity/

[bj229r]

I suppose I'd rather be without power for hours ata time in CA than in MASS during the dead of winter. One advantage of gas is you can heat your home with a small generator, not so much with heat pump, etc

[-gg-]

I thought gas was clean energy? That doesn't even make sense.

[bj229r]

NG is magnitudes cleaner than coal, so much so that so many power plants switched from coal to NG that our co2 emissions dropped even beyond what was required in the Paris Climate Accords. That being said, NG comes mostly from fracking, and that's ALSO a no-no

[Shuffler]

NG is magnitudes cleaner than coal, so much so that so many power plants switched from coal to NG that our co2 emissions dropped even beyond what was required in the Paris Climate Accords. That being said, NG comes mostly from fracking, and that's ALSO a no-no

Fracking has been in use since 1947.

[guncrasher]

Fracking has been in use since 1947.

franking has been used since the dawn of man.


semp

[bj229r]

Well exactly who is this frank and what's so special about him?

[icepac]

I’ve been ramping up on electric cars and hybrids……for the last 20 years.
Many tuning skills will transfer to electric.   
I am curious if any of the global warming people have considered the heat generated by an electric car.   
They’ve  got radiators in them………..

[bj229r]

You pay me enough money to buy an electric car then I'll buy one. That point hasn't arrived yet

[mikeWe9a]

I thought gas was clean energy? That doesn't even make sense.

Gas is CLEANER.  That is, cleaner than coal or fuel oil, in that it produces less CO2 for a given amount of energy extracted.  It still produces CO2, however.  So replacing Coal with natural gas reduces CO2 emissions, but using additional Natural Gas without reducing Coal (or other high carbon fuel) increases CO2.

[bj229r]

Meanwhile China and India open another unfiltered coal-fired power plant every week and two on Thursday

[Shuffler]

Saying you are not using fossil fuel then leaning heavily on fossil fuel.........