{"id":11344,"date":"2021-04-25T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11344"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:11:07","slug":"malaise-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/25\/malaise-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaise Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Car Bibles<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaise Motors Is Your Safe Space to Love Cars That People Hate<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Malaise-era cars haven’t had a huge fanbase, but it does exist!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY KEVIN WILLIAMS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facebook car groups can be a hot mess. Half of them seem like they\u2019re full of dunderheads asking the same easily Googleable basic questions, and the other half is full of know-it-alls who lambast anyone who doesn\u2019t align completely with their tastes. It\u2019s easy for a group to become toxic or boring, then fade away into nothing. Malaise Motors is, refreshingly, neither.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Malaise Motors Facebook group<\/a> is dedicated to cars from the \u201cMalaise\u201d era, which this group defines as 1972 to 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Malaise, you ask? To make a long story short, the U.S. had a horrible air pollution problem in the 1960s and \u201970s \u2013 smoggy air was a common sight in many American cities. The Clean Air Act of 1972<\/a>, created to clear up hazy skies, introduced limits on how much pollution engines could emit. The side effect, though, is that these emissions restrictions also severely limited output from engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, a 350 horsepower V8 was now making 160 HP because the era\u2019s automotive technology couldn\u2019t really reconcile making power without making pollution. The group considers the mandate of OBDII, the universal computerized diagnostic system virtually every car made since \u201996 has, as the end of Malaise. The group calls OBDII the \u201cbeginning the modern era of engine management and emissions control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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