What does a carburetor do?

What does a carburetor do and does my car have one? It’s a Dodge Caliber.

Doose,Palatine, Ill.

Carburetors have been extinct on new cars since the early 1990s, so no, your Caliber doesn’t have one.

A carburetor used to sit on top of an engine and was a mechanical device used to mix the air and fuel needed for an engine to run. Its shortcomings were poor gas mileage, high emission levels and the inability to adjust for extreme outside temperatures; they had an especially hard time starting an engine in cold weather.

The carburetor’s replacement is the modern electronic fuel-injection system, which surpasses the carburetor in every way as a more efficient way to control your engine’s air and fuel mixture, thus improving gas mileage, emissions and drivability in any temperature. Carburetors have the ability to make lots of power on a hot-rodded engine, so they’re still popular with horsepower junkies and performance enthusiasts, but for new cars they’re long gone.

Answered by Joe Bruzek on May 17, 2007 in How Does That Work? | Permalink

Comments

What type of ignorant person would ask what a carburetor does? Shame on YOU!!!

What kind of jerk calls someone an ignorant person for asking a simple question. Some people are just simply too "ignorant" to realize what jerks they are themselves.

So how did you learn anything without asking questions? At some point you have to ask to learn and learn to ask.

mmm so tell me how the hell a professional became professional without asking to the professional?

if your car has a 2bbl carb and you put a 4 bbl carb does that increase hp?

You are forcing more gas and air into your engine so in theory that should increase hp, but im am not 100% sure.

You are forcing more gas and air into your engine so in theory that should increase hp, but im am not 100% sure.

yea i was thinkin about putting a k20 in my hatchback and i was jw if it would be worth it in the long run?

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