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
That's more for emissions than any other factor. Carbs cannot be managed as
well as EFIs, pure and simple.
And you can't fudge a whole lot of performance boost, or at least anywhere
near as simply with an EFI than is possible with a carb. It's really not
a matter of imports or domestic, just America's undying devotion to the
formula that speed > fuel economy + emissions. Now, at the other end of the
spectrum, given unlimited resources and hi-tech gizmos, FI can outperform
carbs gallon for gallon, barring nitrous and other tricks]. But hey,
changing the Bricklin into a computer controlled over-managed vehicle
basically a CPU on wheels] is the exact *opposite* direction I'd want to
go. Again, it just doesn't seem to mesh well with what the Brick was or is.
But hey, different strokes are what make different folks more interesting.
As far as anyone laughing, well, I'd much rather seem 'em laughing than a
host of other bodily functions.
stephan
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