Advantages on carburated
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Advantages on carburated What are the advantages/disadvantages to going to carb setup? Car is not driven daily. I know I will lose traction control and such, but should be cheaper than a better intake and tuning for 427cu.
I would say better intake flow especially for larger cubic inch setups. Slightly more power up top possibly when compared to a high flowing fuel injection setup. Disadvantages would include loss of throttle resonse slightly loss of part throttle performance driveability, problems cold weather starting, and loss of gas mileage.
Carb will require continous retuning to get it right each time you use it and rebuilds through the life of the car. Esp if you are going to store for long periods of time w/o using it. It is easy to tune a carb but you dont know the exact fuel ratio. Carbs are expensive and rebuilds are annoying.
Fuel injection is more precise and once it is together you never has to physically mess with it. All computer code. No choke to mess with. All you have to do is familarize yourself with programming it and you are so much better in the long run. If I set the fuel to XXXX at that cell and the idle is set to XXX I know it is always going to be that where with a carb turning screws isn't that accurate. Also, with EFI the computer can protect the engine where a carb setup can't reduce timing or cut the engine for a rev limiter.
I understand you have to get over the hurdles of tuning EFI but I really believe it is better.
Fuel injection is more precise and once it is together you never has to physically mess with it. All computer code. No choke to mess with. All you have to do is familarize yourself with programming it and you are so much better in the long run. If I set the fuel to XXXX at that cell and the idle is set to XXX I know it is always going to be that where with a carb turning screws isn't that accurate. Also, with EFI the computer can protect the engine where a carb setup can't reduce timing or cut the engine for a rev limiter.
I understand you have to get over the hurdles of tuning EFI but I really believe it is better.
