Stay with a carburetor or go EFI

yellow rose said

It has nothing to do with fear.

OEM EFI is about emissions and junk like that. It damn sure isn’t about maximum power.

If a carb can’t be made drivable that’s on the tuner.

If you are willing to spend the timing learning EFI, why not spend the time to learn carburation?

If your goal is to be able to turn the key and have it idle than EFI is what you want. Any half assed tuned carb will start and run with a turn of the key, and it takes about 1 minute for the car to sit and idle on its own. If that.

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I kind of wonder if an 485 HP motor could be run on a carb and still be grandmother approved to drive and return 22+ mpg. I am sure a 750 DP would work fine, but I bet it would be hard to get it to run clean all the time, slightly finicky when cold and return (at best) 18 mpg. Now take that same motor and carb and sell it in all 50 states and see how well it works when the climates are so radically different.

I don't think we would have Scat Packs and Hellcats if the OEM's had stayed with carbs. I agree they moved that way due to emissions, but I think it opened whole new chapter in performance in the end.