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Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera View Post
Typically, CA spec engines had leaner carb jetting characteristics, distributors with an altered advance curve (less advance at lower rpms), and initial timing closer to TDC.
easy enough to fix.
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At times additional components were needed to meet CA standards. For example, 75-79 California Corvettes required the addition of air injection pumps.
Those were always a huge pleasure to delete from a car. What an ugly nightmare cars from the 70s and early 80s were due to all of that crap.
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