To carb or not to carb ...
 

Somthing I've been giving a lote of thought to ... if I do build a stroker motor I'd save myself alot of money by running a carb'd setup seeing that I don't have a lot of the parts necessary for mass air EFI.

The case for the carb as I see it .. cheap, clean, simple ..

Case against EFI .. I would need upgraded injectors and MAF, and I would have to find a mass air eec, ect ...

The way it seems to me is I'd be saving myself a lot of money by running a carb, but I'd be sacrificing some of the benefits that mass air EFI could provide.

Now ... let's see some feedback.

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

I am a carb hater, so I would be biased :D

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

I wouldnt do a carb on anything that I planned on driving daily, but for a toy....carbs are okay.

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

Well, it wouldn't be a daily driver (already have a car for that) but that's not saying I wouldn't want it to be fairly reliable ... I mean what fun is a car that you can't drive.

What I'm looking at if I go EFI... I have the wiring harness for a non-mass air setup and stock rails.

I would have to upgrade to mass air and buy the following ...

75-80 mm MAF
24-30 lb Injectors
70-75 mm TB
Mass Air EEC
AFPR
255+ lph fuel pump
Intake .. Systemax or TFS R

That's a lot of money .... :(

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

You all can kiss my ass, mine is carb and properly tuned you can drive it anywhere, I know I do now that the carb is tuned right, it is fun when you open them 4 barrels and smoke the tire about 50ft, he,he, LOL



Edgar

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

What would you do if you had to start from scratch .. carb or EFI?

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

There is nothing wrong with running a carb, however if you ever planned on supercharging or turbo, the EFI is more tunable.

As far as carbs not being reliable, I drove my car more than 30k miles ran mid 12's and never even tuned it (and got 22+ mpg on the road with 4.10 gears).

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

the only power adder that would ever see the engine is perhaps nitrous at some point in the future.

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

I just went from EFI to carb becouse I thought it would be cheaper, I was wrong. After you buy a good carb and ignition fuel pump intake and plumbing it I spent alota money. So carb is not as cheap as some think. You could convert cheaper then I did, but buying cheaper stuff will hurt in the long run.

Re: To carb or not to carb ...
 

You have to bare in mind that I'm not converting from one to the other, I'm starting from scratch. Thanks for sharing. :chug: