Fuel injection joke
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Laughs in Chrysler Lean Burn.
That was the 84 Corvette iirc
Chrysler had a Bendix fuel injection system on some 1950s Hemis that was so troublesome, it was recalled and replaced with carburetors.
I remember it being called "Belch-Fire". 
The 82 C3 Corvette was the first Corvette with cross-fire injection. The 82 Corvette also was the first year for the 4 speed automatic transmission. 1983 was the only skipped year for the Corvette and the 84 C4 also had the cross-fire injection and it was difficult to tune but could be done. 1984 was a cool year for the Corvette back then however now it is a year that a lot of Corvette owners dismiss as being the worst year of the C4 which ran from 1984 to 1996.
Cadillac 4-6-8. What a dumb idea. Wait a minute.
They did that with the 70's lean burn too.
When I worked at a parts store we learned real fast that the was no 83 Corvette ,96 wrangler and no VW beetle coolant hoses
One year in the late 70’s the 454 Suburban could beat a Corvette.
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Similar joke with the Rochester(built in my hometown at RP) Quadrajet Carburetors. We always called them the Quadrabog.
Some were really responsive and others would just bog down upon WOT.
Some were really responsive and others would just bog down upon WOT.
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The 1982 and the 1984 Corvette both used Cross-fire injection. It was introduced on the C3 and used only the first year on the C4.
I remember this badge on the side of these things when they first came out. I was a wide-eyed kid in high school then and could only dream. I settled for a Z-28 but always wanted a Corvette.
Yes, in the day if you had one you were definitely the envy of most car guys. The body style was way ahead of the times and if you seen one you knew it was a Corvette.
Sid was a legendary master mechanic here who hosted The Automotive Hotline, a long-running phone-in radio program.
Sid said that the electronic "brain" of the Mopar lean-burn system was mounted on the air-cleaner housing, and was very sensitive to temperature. That is, it operated well within a certain temperature range.
He recommended, given our extreme temperatures, that the computer "brain" be left on the air- cleaner housing in the winter (where it would be warmed by rising engine heat), and moved to the firewall for the summer, where it would be cooler.
I can't imagine Joe Q. Public doing a computer relocation twice a year.
I had an 84 Buick 3.8l with an electronic carburetor. It was in between regular mechanical carburation and fuel injection. It started having problems, and no one knew how to solve them. I found an old-timer at a garage who was about to retire, and he got everything squared away. He was possibly the only one in all of San Antonio that knew how to work on it.
It still is.
