Carburettor vs Airbox - What's the difference?
carburettor | airbox |
(AU, NZ, UK) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporised and mixed with air prior to ignition.
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(informal) The chamber in a car or motorcycle engine that draws in air and distributes it to the carburettors.
As nouns the difference between carburettor and airbox
is that carburettor is (au|nz|uk) a device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporised and mixed with air prior to ignition while airbox is (informal) the chamber in a car or motorcycle engine that draws in air and distributes it to the carburettors.carburettor
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*(US) carburetorNoun
(en noun)page 92,
- Both affect the performance of the machine, especially the carburettors , and both are important to the final appearance of the model.
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- In a carburettor the pressure drop (or viewed another way, suction) is used to draw fuel out of a reservoir, usually via a jet, and into the venturi to mix with the air flowing through it.
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- For a large part of the twentieth century the majority of light vehicles used petrol engines that were equipped with a carburettor .
