Edelbrock’s New Carb Is The Most High-Tech

Ha, this thread is the same as the car shows. The people keeping the carb business alive are people that don't trust or understand fuel injection. Carburetors have been around for 100 years and at this point, we've probably learned all we're ever going to learn about them. No matter that there hasn't been a carb on a new car in 40 years...

I know I said earlier that it was kinda cool and all but when you really think abut it, for Edelbrock to put so much time and effort into developing this carb it seems kind of silly and not very forward thinking. I really believe it's because they got left behind in the EFI race.

More adjustbaility is fine for the small segment of the market that wants their tune to be razor sharp but if that's what people want then why stick with a carb? And even for the majority of the guys that "just want to get in their car and go" what's the point of having all this adjustability? I can't see drag racers giving up a two circuit Dominator for one of these.

Every carb I've ever had ran different on different days, that's just science. Carbs are at the mercy of the ambient air no matter what gadgetry you attach to it. Why do guys have weather stations at the track? Atmosphere changes rapidly and the mixer has to adjust or it won't perform as expected.

Conversely, even though it seems like it's being marketed as such, EFI is NOT a magic bullet. There are instances where a carburetor will outperform EFI but it's a small margin and as time goes on and smart racers spend more time learning about it the gap closes. Many of the really fast cars at the drags these days are injected and tuned with a laptop.

Agree with Joe that most of the time these things fail because of user error. There is a thread on the other "forBodiesOnly" site now where a guy is having problems with his Sniper. It started blowing black smoke and running rough. He keeps replacing 02 sensors and Orange box ignition modules as if those are what are causing the problem. I'm not even sure how he gets the the thing to run with an orange box but it's not worth the time to delve into that.

Regardless, 02 sensors generally never fail but this guy had one take a dump within a few miles? Then he goes on to say XYZ data number is way off and ABC sensor number is pegged and does not understand why his timing is locked out in the software. But you know the 02 is bad?

Obviously the problem is beyond a bad 02 and I said so but all the other replies in the thread are agreeing the 02 is culprit. So he takes the 02 out, drives the car around the block and comes back to the thread posting it ran fine so it has to be the 02. :BangHead: You can only help so much. I would not want to be a Holley tech line employee!

Carbs are fun, I still mess with them but lately it's been on other people's stuff that I help with. I'll never get rid of my carb stuff completely, I have way too much time and money invested in them to abandon it forever. I probably wouldn't buy this Edelbrock carb though.

Tuning EFI really is a similar process, it's just a different method of viewing the information. Some people just won't trust computers and electronics and will never see the benefits of EFI even though it could be a good thing.