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How Cars Became Computerized

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Carburators and Fuel Injection

The low pressure draws up the fuel, which then can mix with the air in the venturi and then head on to some other element. In later days, all that was smoothed out quite a bit. You didn't have to ride the choke as were. Also, if your car has more than one cylinder, once you get past the earliest cars,. they pretty much all did, well, a carborator wasn't the best way to get fuel and air to those cylinders. Some vehicles would actually have twin carberators, which would be paired to different cylinders to reduce this. But then that required frequent tune ups to make sure that the two pair, that the two carbur

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