Another "Is Fuel Injection a Worthwhile Upgrade?" Question

yellow rose said
I didn’t “jump down your throat”. I pointed out that you love to point out all the deficiencies of a carb, but you fail to ever address EFI issues.

And I don’t bloviate. That’s what you say when you disagree with what I’ve said.

Post 290 is the correct answer, and yet you are still crying about it.

I said that post was correct except for the last line because if anyone was actually honest that's just bitching and name calling. Then a few posts later you go right back to calling everyone a baby and going on a rant about something nobody asked about, or all the previous rants about CAFE. That's the bloviating.

The deficiencies of EFI is the difficulty in installation (Sniper is a lot easier than an MPFI due to being a contained unit), cost, and then if someone isn't too savvy with a computer or tuning in general to get the last bit of it out. There's effort there. Nearly none of us tune a carb fresh out of a box on a daily basis. This is why it's my belief that this is going to be simpler for the average person once the installation is done due to the auto tune and the setup wizard to get it "close" and then take it from there. Even some of us could help with what to change in the tune to get the last out of it thanks to the tune and datalogs being available. Maybe someone gets a better ET or a better dyno print out with a carb, cool if that's the most important thing for you. Just want to have an honest conversation about things given that most of us didn't spend our lives reworking carbs, especially the last 7-10 years the EFI stuff changed a lot and took it from being very difficult to being within reach for a lot of people. I suspect we go forward a few more and the difficulty will continue to drop. The sniper is a good value for someone that hasn't purchased anything yet. But the OP has a carb so he might make the best move by starting with that.

Again I did both carb and EFI on the same engine and that's my experience. Was barely any help on this board at the time about the carb because the average person never gets that deep into it. Literally people were just telling me to buy another off the shelf carb which is the one they have. That frustrates a lot of people. What I did learn and with that I could apply to the EFI the first day and then move from there to take out the things I didn't like with my carb. At the time I had never tuned an EFI system and I didn't even drive the car for 2 hrs working on it to get to to the level of the carb i had spent literal entire days tuning. It may be more difficult for others, I don't know. No regrets, but I spent a good deal of money to do it. Some people don't want that and I get it. If you want to pick apart my tuning advice today about the carb or distributor because you know better, go for it. I'm perfectly happy to admit if I did something wrong there and someone can learn from it. My opinion is that if money isn't an issue the EFI can be a good upgrade for someone's car they just like to drive. There are also others that it made a big difference for them.