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05-17-2006, 10:13 AM
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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. |
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05-17-2006, 10:21 AM
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Re: To carb or not to carb ...
I am a carb hater, so I would be biased
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05-17-2006, 12:16 PM
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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.
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05-17-2006, 12:32 PM
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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 .... 
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05-17-2006, 02:48 PM
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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
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05-17-2006, 03:48 PM
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Re: To carb or not to carb ...
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05-17-2006, 04:48 PM
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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).
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05-17-2006, 05:00 PM
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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.
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05-17-2006, 05:07 PM
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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.
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05-17-2006, 05:10 PM
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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.
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