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Old 03-30-2012, 03:04 PM   #76 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SOUL-DRIFTER View Post
I remember some cars like the first year or two Honda that advertised getting 60mpg, they were not fuel injected back then. Yet the EFI of today does not get close to that.
So what is the explanation there?
Sorry to say this, but how can you claim to be a mechanic and ask this?

Those first 'civic' probably didnt weight half what the next gen civics weight.

And the engines had no power.

There there was all the smog requiremnets that followed.

(or maybe they pulled off those '60mpg carbs')
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