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by incoren3 42 days ago
The newest car I own is 14 years old, and the next one I buy will have a carburetor.

And you better believe I will ride around on a fucking HORSE before I put up with ads on my dashboard. Screw that noise.

2 comments

Think you're greatly underestimated how unreliable carburetors can be.
Diabolical devices. Anything between 1990-2015 is sort of the gold era of cars. A modern engine swap was the best thing I did for a number of my vehicles. And there are FOSS ECUs that are extremely capable.
E-Bike, motorcycle, older cars, and once all of those aren't an option anymore, we're going to start stripping cars down.
Dunno man. I am inclined to do it and maybe even able to, but I will admit that there is some hesitation in messing too hard with internals of a rather expensive toy. Part of me is really hoping custom EV kits come here faster so that I can finally have proper EV vette in 90s body.
I think it will have to be an underground scene with people who know how to "dumb down" cars doing it for some amount of money. Doesn't have to be illegal, but we keep somehow all voting for the biggest idiots the world has ever seen, so modifying your car within safe limits might be illegal soon.