Remember when Jeeps were Jeeps? No airbags, no gigantic cushioned rollbars, etc. Chrysler is not allowed to build an exact copy of a 1980 CJ-8 and sell it, such would be against the law. Consider today's camaros and challengers to their ancestors, they weigh many hundreds of pounds more. My truck weighs 5,900 pounds empty and its 1980 ancestor weighed 4,809 empty.
A 1990 Cummins 1-ton we used to have got 26mpg with a full load. Today's trucks get nowhere near that because of the stupid emissions requirements cutting their economy to less than half. A 1985s Buick LeSabre would get 35mpg on the highway, heck, one of my Buick GNs got 26mpg and made 425 rwhp and passed emissions. My father's Isuzu I-Mark got 62mpg.
The insanity of of our computerized charcoal and cannistor purge systems I'd do away with. Leave it simple and mechanical and able to be removed without affecting engine operations like the old days. CAFE standards would be done away with too. If someone wants a gas mizer, let them buy it. Don't force AFM/DOD on us to please Washington.
I never heard of a catch can before coming to this forum after buying my first truck with an LS engine. Way back when when we wanted to keep those Jimmy Carter oil deposits out of our intakes we simply put breathers on the valve covers, blocked off the heater lines going to our intakes and threw all that garbage away. The cars ran so much better and got better gas mileage. Anyone here remember the air pumps from the 1970s and 1980s? Another nightmare. Remember all those vacuum lines and when one would crack and leak it choked the car to death and emptied the poor owner's wallet. I removed all that crap, gutted the cats and still passed emissions through proper tuning, not to mention making the cars more driveable and powerful and economical. One had to conclude that those blokes in Washington didn't have a clue and were enriching their buddies by making us pay for all that garbage they passed into law and regulations. Rant over.
