became the main part of the suspension system. The shocks took most of the force from a bump by allowing easier flowing of the wheel up and down. The air ride system allows for a personal touch. The driver of the automobile could sit inside and adjust the system to a ride height that they wanted or adjust it to a soft-ride or a more firm-handling mode (Coates Air Ride System 1). These systems allowed for less roll and a more comfortable ride.The carburetor is the where the fuel and air are mixed to send into the combustion chamber. Being a delicate piece the carburetor constantly needed adjustment because of a change in temperature or the type of gas used. If the carburetor had a little problem it could cause the engine to run rich which would cause too much gas to be used or it could run lean which could cause the engine to overheat and blow up. Fuel injection fixed almost all of these problems. Instead of the carburetor being set at one place all the time the computer tell the fuel injection system to adjust itself as the engines needs. The computer tells the injectors when to spray gas into the engine and how much is needed. A fuel injector works on pressure and can spray more than 1000 times per minute at highway speed. (Coates Fuel Injection 2).The breaker point ignition system of the 1950's transformed low voltage in to high voltage thanks to the coil. The electricity is then sent to the distributor which then send it to the cylinders based on the position of the rotor. The distributor was based around the points which when open sent the electricity to the cylinders. The down side to this was that when any part of the system got worn down it was difficult to fix and took a long time, the worse part; it happened often. The distributor send out any where from 4,000 to 28,000 volts to produce a spark at the spark plug to ignite the fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber. By 2000 all new cars have and electronically controlled ig...
