carburettor

Except that modern car engines are vastly improved over their 1970’s carburettor fed, catalytic convertered, counterparts.

Especially the snarl at 4000 rpm when the second pair of carburettor throats cut in.

For example, a 50cc would typically have a carburettor, a bigger engine fuel injection.

You’ll be on a carburettor instead of injection but that’s about the only difference!

I know when a car has a flat tire, even if I don’t know a tappet from a carburettor.

The word for pedal comes from accelerator regulating gas-mixture valve (throttle) in carburettor.

The very effective wooden carburettor heating system is heating up the water storage.

When I drive my work van I use a throttle body, when I drive my car I use a carburettor.

So interestingly in these sort of engines you're really just controlling airflow to the engine rather than fuel/air mix like on one with a carburettor.

With carburettor fed engines it is sometimes advised by the manufacturer to allow the engine to idle for some time after running it at high RPM.

You don’t need to solve fluid dynamics and combustion physics to understand that more air through a carburettor causes an internal combustion engine to run faster.

But replacing a carburettor on a 1983 is trivial.

One chapter was titled "'Carburettor' is French for 'Don't ever touch it'", and elaborated on why (mostly, too many ways to do it wrong).