Super Chevy – September 2019

8 SUPER CHEVY SEPTEMBER^2019

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hat better way to

start the new decade

with a bang,” wrote

the editors of Car Craft magazine

in their December 1989 issue, “than

with a dragstrip test and re-enactment

of a 23-year-old shootout, Camaro versus

Mustang?” And for “a little variety,”

they brought a Kawasaki Ninja to the

test at Los Angeles County Raceway

up in the desert.

For 1990, GM’s Tuned Port Injection

(TPI) engines were giving up their mass

air sensors in exchange for a speed

density air metering system. “Instead

of actually measuring the amount of air

entering the engine with the MAF sensor,

speed density calculates air flow by

THE ARCHIVES

By Drew Hardin + Photos courtesy the Petersen Publishing Co. Archive

A Test of Two Worlds