What Made Honda’s 1972 CVCC Engine Technology So Unique (For The Time)

The master engine-smiths at Honda have long been venerated for developing the now famous VTEC engines that featured variable valve timing. Long before it was cool to boast about VTEC ‘kicking in,’ Honda came up with another ground breaking engine technology that went by the much less catchy name of ‘CVCC.’  CVCC stands for ‘Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion,’ and was developed out of necessity to comply with the increasingly restrictive emissions standards of the early 1970s like the Clean

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