Carburettors vs fuel injection

I'm pretty sure GM's 307 was made as late as 1991 model year. I was always a big fan of that motor until the gas prices got where they are today.

Subaru *Justy?* Same engine as the three-cylinder 93 Geo Metro.

"Ryan Underwood" wrote

Still a fan of carberators? These coffin size, rough idle 3-cylinder carberator Geo Metros are pretty economical babies when it comes to running on fuel vapors. Bad part is that this motor struggles to go over 100k miles.

Someone is claiming 100 Mpg on this Metro.

Some stuff was out there in the early 80's but GM, Ford & Chrysler all went entirely F.I. by about 87 or 88. See a few 88 chevy trucks with carbs, but not many. Don't know about the foreign dudes.

The Toyota Corolla had a carb at least as late as 1991.

Keep in mind that most of the later carbuereter vehicles where actually electronic hybrids where a computer monitored exhaust oxygen with an O2 sensor and modified the mixture by tinkering with either fuel flow in the carb jets or by bleeding extra air into the manifold.

JazzMan

In what market? The answer's different depending on if you mean the US market, the Canadian market, the UK market, the European Common market, Australia, Japan, Russia, China, South America...

Good point.

I meant the US market.

Andy

Or at least as late as 1989.

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P.S. 1990 for the Turdcel VV carb.

My 1989 Ford Festiva with a 1.3 Mazda engine has a feedback carburettor. Half way through the model year they switched to fuel injection.

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Adding the 89 Honda Accord LX and DX to the list of carb models.

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I have heard it was the Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

Andy

My sister had a 1991 Canadian model Corolla with a carburetor, which is how I know that. Perhaps the US had got rid of carbs before Canada.

Right. In the US, Toyota changed Corollas to EFI in 1990 while keeping that bodystyle through 1992. It retained basically the same engine, the 4A-F, while the new EFI version became the 4A-FE.

I was thinking US market when I replied as I am a stupid, lazy American and can think no other way...

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