Comment by metalman

A note on the 12 valve is that for many years it had NO emmisions equipment as it was so efficient that it met emmisions of the day, "in cylinder", and when tuned properly you can watch the exhaust and it's nothing but heat comming out the stack. also the standard set up will burn almost anything in hard times, and as one pirate I encountered fueling up a p pumped motor with used resuraunt oil said "it will chew through anything including the chicken bones"

this is the kind of reliability that gets smaller scale farms through hard times, especialy where they dont have the excess managerial capacity to navigate the complex systems of government and banking financial "incentives"