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Re: Carb vs FI

To: Maycinc@cs.com
Subject: Re: Carb vs FI
From: Jon Garruba <jgarru01@longisland.poly.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 21:06:57 -0500
Depends on who you ask. Ask virtually any "Domestic performance" company
or person and they will tell you carbs, but read or talk to any person
about import cars and they would laugh at that statement. FI is
defiantly more advanced and provides better performance and efficiency,
but it is more complicated. And more difficult to tune to engine changes
(upgrades).  And for the back yard mechanic who doesn't have all the
electronical tools to properly tune an FI system for a custom engine,
Carbs will continue to rule. But in real performance applications, and
new cars, you will never see a carb.

Maycinc@cs.com wrote:
> 
> I just picked up the March issue of Hot Rod magazine.  It has an in depth
> article on intake manifolds and discusses the pros and cons of carb. (wet
> flow) vs fuel injection (dry flow).   Basically, they concluded (on page 68)
> that "the four-barrel will continue to rule!".
> Marvin
> #1343

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