E.F.I stinks
Tuned
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From: Ohio
lets see you live in the midwest and tune your carb on a hot 95* F day and have that same carbed engine run when it drops to -10* F without leaning out and destroying something. fuel injection adjusts air/fuel multiple times per second. Yes carbs don't mess up as much, but if you take care of your EFI vehicle, it won't mess up either. Alot of people that have extensive problems asked for them by not fixing the small ones when they popped up, which is why buying a used vehicle is always a gamble
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From: high level ab. ca.
lol im not anti efi its nice to have comand start efi lay in bed on -40 mornings and start my truck lol but its a pain in the he-haw wen not even the guys that work at the ford dealership can tell u whats wrong. $5000 dollar scaners cant pick up codes that arent there especally the cave man obd one systems. a skilled mechanic can make just as much power and fuel economy out of a carb job. shoot i dont even pump the gas on my original 74 ford to start it i just turn the key and when tune up time comes all i need is a $3 dollar screw driver.
boath have there advantages one is just a pain in the neck when it dont work. but id still rather take my carb 
old school cool rules 
boath have there advantages one is just a pain in the neck when it dont work. but id still rather take my carb old school cool rules
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From: Concord, NC
boath have there advantages one is just a pain in the neck when it dont work.
As far as racing EFI vs. carb, my truck doesn't have a prayer in a race with yours, but it's not because I have EFI and you have a carb. Horsepower is horsepower, whether it's made with EFI or a carburetor. Straight line performance might not be much different on identical engines, carbed vs. EFI, but if there's any significant lateral g-loading, I'll take EFI any day over the unmetered fuel spilling out of the boosters. Plus spark control is also a definite advantage for EFI.
I hope the mechanical diesel injection systems work better than the old VW mechanical gasoline injection CFI.
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From: Semper Fi tell I die!
thats an outright lie right there.. there are even carbs for turbos, blow thru and suck thru carbs.. a carb has allot more RANGE then a single set of fuel injectors also.
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From: Sand Lake, MI
Gotta watch it here guys, got one that will slam ya for making a general observation/joke post.
Thought we where all adults here........
Thought we where all adults here........
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I'll stick to FI, mainly because it's here and pretty good at what it does. For about any daily driver me or my wife will have (and the kids in a couple of years) FI will be the fuel delivery system. There's not much point in teaching my kids carburetors or spending a bunch of time learning carburetion when anything I'm going to work on that needs to run is going to be fuel injected. Other than my lawnmower.
If I wanted to build an older project and keep it original that might be a different story, but I don't. Sure, it can be more expensive and there are some wires involved, but there's no way cars could achieve the horsepower, emissions standards, and fuel economy out of the same cubes they currently do with carburetion.
If I wanted to build an older project and keep it original that might be a different story, but I don't. Sure, it can be more expensive and there are some wires involved, but there's no way cars could achieve the horsepower, emissions standards, and fuel economy out of the same cubes they currently do with carburetion.
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From: Semper Fi tell I die!
your saying that we don tliek EFI because we dont understand it? your completely wrong, ive worked on both systems and own both systems. your the one slamming people saying they are afraid of efi because they are dumb.
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From: Sand Lake, MI
No, what I did was post a joke to the discussion at hand, didn't slam anyone and had nothing to do with you.
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From: Semper Fi tell I die!
Oh my mistake, im sorry for not understanding. Context is lost on the internet.
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I can accept that, yes intent and context is very hard to follow seeing nothing but the words on the screen.
Was the reason for my ROFLAO guy I included with, posted as a response to my "joke" to aid in showing its intent, and nothing more.
Anyway was supposed to be a "Freudian" thing, if you knew me, the kinda guy I am, probably been easier to get the "joke".
Was the reason for my ROFLAO guy I included with, posted as a response to my "joke" to aid in showing its intent, and nothing more.
Anyway was supposed to be a "Freudian" thing, if you knew me, the kinda guy I am, probably been easier to get the "joke".