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Simply by keeping his auto tires properly inflated to reduce friction, a driver can save as much as 50 gal. of gas per year. Still another 75 gal. can be saved by keeping an engine in tune: ignition timed, carburetor checked, pollution-control valve cleaned, filters and spark plugs repaired or replaced...
Spreading Flame. With that addition, the cycle of the stratified-charge engine remains quite similar to the sequence in ordinary internal combustion engines: 1) As the piston descends, a rich fuel mix from one carburetor is injected into the small combustion chamber near the spark plug. A leaner mixture, from a second carburetor, is squirted into the rest of the cylinder. 2) Moving up, the piston compresses both charges, pushing back most of the richer mix that may have seeped into the main chamber. 3) The spark plug fires the rich mix. 4) The rich, burning mix ignites the adjoining...
Honda engineers insist that the extra carburetor and the additional parts needed to open and close the second intake valve on each cylinder will not add more than 10% to the basic cost of the 65-h.p. engine. Moreover, they point out that the engine does not require special servicing or changes of material to maintain low emission. By contrast, U.S. and other foreign engines will need expensive catalytic converters or thermal reactors to meet 1975 emission standards. The catalytic converters can easily be fouled, have tended to break down in tests and, in any case, must be periodically replaced...
...loosely called an identity crisis. As a professional actor, Smackenfelt knows how to get totally immersed in his roles. He is intelligent and sharply aware of how religious ideas about good and evil, have become psychoanalytic attempts to treat the troubled soul as if it were a badly adjusted carburetor. He also remains deeply attached to his ex-wife Dolly. When she runs into difficulties with her play about Sir Walter Raleigh, Smackenfelt enriches her script with research and a model characterization of Raleigh that almost leaves the actor with a permanent Devonshire accent...
...other drawbacks. The bestselling RX3 five-passenger station wagon is not exactly oversized for its price ($3,700, with automatic shift, air conditioning and radio). Mazda's engine and complex emissions system, though admirably low-polluting, tend to develop a popping effect unless points, plugs and carburetor are meticulously tuned. Nearly all Mazda drivers find that gas consumption is about 10% higher than for comparably sized cars; the Mazda drinks a quart of oil every 1,500 miles. Still, the car has a lot of selling points, including a fast pickup that carries it from 0 m.p.h...