Musing: Binary Blinders and Quantum Networks

[Occhidiangela]

Not a lost bridge, just a different art or skillset.  Instead of turning a mixture screw now you tweak idle RPM and air/fuel mixture with a controller.  The enthusiast and racing markets have all sorts of neat toys (including carburetors ;) ) that you can use to tune your vehicle into exactly what you want.
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Perhaps what is lost is the simplicity of the shade tree mechanic's tool set of a crescent wrench, a screwdriver, a pair of pliers, a hammer, and the simple one-bulb two-wire light used to time an engine, in the day when tuning was as much art as science. The new gadgets accompany the loss of the tactile sense of turning the screw, the infinite number of final adjustment settings unconstrained by digital slices, the feel of the spring's gentle resistance to the turning set screw, the joy of getting the tune "just right" due to your own craft, the ability to strip the carb down to parade rest and clean all of it with kerosene.

OK, call be a Luddite, I know digital fuel controls yield better mileage and cleaner burning, which is good for our air and thus all of us. Isn't it strange when the part number of a standard computer diagnostic kit ends in 666?

Thanks for the carb spellcheck, I should have looked it up. :blush:

Occhi