The Honda CVCC Engine Was A REVELATION (Full Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Honda's CVCC engine shocked the automotive industry at the time of its introduction and helped jumpstart the brand's fortunes in the American market. Honda went from an also-ran in the car business to a force to be reckoned with, and they can attribute at least part of this success to CVCC Technology. In this video, I'll go over what CVCC technology is, why Honda decided to develop it, and what it ultimately did for Honda and the industry as a whole.
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www.Barchetta.co/cvcc-sources
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 INTRO
00:31 SETTING THE STAGE
05:01 CHANGING TIDES
09:01 CREATION OF THE AP LAB
16:48 PLAYING THE FIELD
24:41 LINK TO THE PAST
33:38 TRUTH IN ENGINEERING
40:42 DETROIT RESPONDS
47:08 CVCC LICENSING
53:58 MARKET INTRODUCTION - Авто та транспорт
I had a 1976 Toyota pickup. It also had the CVCC head. Loved it!
Wow, after all these years I never knew exactly how my 82 Honda Accord worked. I just took that 3 barrel off & put on a Weber 33/36 DGEV carb on & the car came alive! I wished I could've understood it better to tune it better & dial it in.
Best engine in any car I've ever owned. Put 65k on it before any repairs (dirt in the carburetor needle & seat). Sold it at 80k miles; buyer put 20k on it before doing brakes. Put another 40k then did a clutch. Car got 37mpg combined with no computer or fuel injection - only car that got better mpg was my parent's Rabbit Diesel
Very good, Honda have been world leaders in engine technology for many many years, i did not know about the Jaguar V12 using Honda technology to gain better MPG.
Yeah I was surprised to learn about that as well. Very interesting. Thanks for watching!
@@Barchetta Please replace the battery in your smoke detector. The chirp letting you know the battery is dead can be heard in the video.
1:01:00 "Complex Monster"
As a owner of a 1984 Prelude, vacuum hose makes the car more hard to repair.
Awesome video. Very impressed with Honda and Mr. Honda with the more I learn.
Thanks for watching.
You did an absolutely incredible job on this documentary, but please change the battery on your smoke alarm so you can continue to make more!!!
Imagine me walking around my house wondering which room needs a 9-volt battery, then I see this comment… thanks!
Your videos go insanely hard dude no idea how you dont have more views
Quite an interesting listen while I detailed my S2000 before a cruise today!
Underrated channel
I just found this channel and let me say what an amazing job you do in these videos. Keep going and this channel will continue to become more and more popular. Excellent job
Thank you. Much appreciated!
Great content as always.Thanks for the video Barchetta :)
I'm glad you enjoyed! Thanks for taking the time to watch!
Excellent video. Please do a video about Suzuki cars .
Absolutely fantastic video and a chronically underrated channel! Keep up the good work!
Thank you very much. I will!
Awesome video bro .. very educational and entertaining
4:09 bruh that smoke alarm battery needs replacing
The video was impressive!
The technology remains valid.
I’d like to see the easy conversion information concerning the Impala.
Some of us use carbs still and engines do go far bigger than giant 350CIs.
Loved the effort Red.
The CVCC engine in my Mom's 78 Accord was super problematic and I've often seen that engine listed as one of the worst engines of all time. Sure it made emissions and fuel consumption good, but the overly complicated vacuum system and carb's sensitivity to different gas mixtures made it quite unreliable.
Yes the carbed and heavy vacuum engines were headaches to troubleshoot. Modern tuners found out ways to delete all of the vacuum lines with the “wire tuck” craze
I've got one still, plus a few 1st gen civics.
The carbs are copy cats and reliable, but the vaccuum is as bad as it can be.
The 1st gen community calls those cvcc engines boat anchors for good reason. Nearly everyone blew the head gasket.
In the fall of '78, after owning several used vehicles of varying descriptions and vintage, I was ready to buy my first brand new car. I needed something small with good gas mileage, and my budget was no more than $6k. I looked at pretty much everything on the market in the US at that time which met those parameters. The small cars made by the US automakers did not compare well to the imports IMO, so they were out of the running pretty quickly.
I looked briefly at Hondas but decided they were too small, plus there were some stories going around about problems with the engines and overall QC. The idea of a Honda car was still a new thing at that time, especially in the US, and they hadn't yet built up a lot of trust or a loyal following. They were still thought of as primarily a motorcycle company, and there was some doubt about how long they were going to be able to stay in the auto market, especially in the US.
I ended up buying a new Golf/Rabbit. I was able to splurge for the midrange model with a few minor options, but it had power nothing other than steering and brakes (I think). It had an AM radio, crank windows, stick shift, and of course no AC, which was pretty typical at the time even on new cars, especially econo cars. The AC option alone would have added ten percent to the price of the entire car (around $600), so it was a budget buster and I had to skip it. Houses and cars without AC were common then so it wasn't a big deal. I was able to get out the door just under $6k.
The VW was peppy and served me well for two years until I was making more money and could trade it in on something bigger and a little more luxurious (and with AC).
You deserve 1million+ subs.
1:24 car shown is s600 dipped down bumper and not an s500 grille.
I had a Civic that had a bad transmission so I bought a smashed up CVCC car for parts. I decided to switch out the engine as well but after many hours to get it to fit I discovered the CVCC car front end was a few inches longer so the engine wouldn't bolt in. If I remember correctly the fenders were longer too on the CVCC
"WHEN CONGRESS PASSES NEW EMISSIONS STANDARDS, WE HIRE 50 MORE ENGINEERS AND GM HIRES 50 MORE LAWYERS" -- MR. SOICHIRO HONDA...THIS IS THE MENTALITY THAT MAKES ME LOVE JAPANESE CAR COMPANIES AND FURTHER DESPISE LARGE AND CORRUPT CORPORATIONS. INSTEAD OF LOOKING TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY THEY LOOK TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH. NO DIFFERENT THAN OUR LOUSY POLITICIANS.
AMEN!
Change the batteries in your smoke detector. I can hear it in your audio!
lol was seeing if anyone else noticed
i can hear the annoying smoke alarm battery beep in the background. you have not replaced the batteries.
Great video, like all I've seen up to now. Just subscribed, just one request please, loose the color changing moving dots in animation, they are almost like a 3D illusion.
45:27 what car is dat wagon?
Please check the actual MPG of those cars instead of being misled by their narrations.
7.43.....that looks like a UK motorway.....not a Japanese one...
GM, you were the biggest company in the world, why didn't you come up with this? You didn't even try. 44:00 story is hilarious.
Yep it was a great idea right up until the day they lost the lawsuit brought on by GM for Patton infringement. It was a GM design!
No it wasn’t. Honda continued to produce it until other emissions regulations came along. The only way it intersected GM was when their CEO said it would only work on “toy cars” and Soichiro bought a V8 Impala, refitted it with CVCC heads and proved it would pass emmissions tests without cats. It ran hot, but the message was clear for a lab mule.
GM, Ford and Chrysler did everything they could to stop the Japanese because they knew they were in deep crap.
Nah, to be really honest it was quite hard to follow due to pictures and videos that are not respont to what you are saying.
Like 70...80% of what you are saying is not what you are showing. Some of the content was even more confusing than clarifying.
If your speach content taken the book, probabbly I will just read that book.
Overal 6/10
Its hilarious how the world actually considered converting the industry to rotary engines and they found it was complete garbage.
I also love how american automakers dismissed honda then honda basically took their cars and FIXED THEM. The ultimate F U in the industry 🤣😂
The rotary engine essentially bankrupted Mazda. They dumped billions into its development and never got anything but massive troubles from them. Sad too because Mazda’s car and B series trucks were as good as anything produced by the other Japanese companies. Cash strapped Mazda got in bed with FoMoCo and their line turned to poop 💩. One Mazda executive recently stated that their relationship with Ford was the worst decision they ever made and was regretting until this day.
@@prevost8686 even without ford in the mix the rotary engine has alot of weak points for the engine to fail eventhough it has “less moving parts”. The whole engine has to come out anytime a rotor seal fails. And while they are the most efficient in terms of power/liter, they are also the least efficient in terms of gas milage which isnt appealing to the american market. Interesting design, great on paper but not viable long term relative to piston engines. Honda ias basically perfected the 1.6L and its not difficult to find one with over 300k miles on it
Palladium is pronounced "Pah-Lay-Dee-Um", not "pallah-deeum". Stoichiometric is pronounced "Stoke-EE-Oh-Metric". Ask is pronounced "AsssK", not "axe".
Oh wow Marc, thanks for letting us know. Imagine how life would have went for us had you not corrected his pronunciations.