Actually, my comment was more directed towards the entire build being uses as an example, not so much just the glorified fuel leak bolted to the manifold. Purpose built race cars are "NOT" the example carb nug huggers use when they compare the two. He may only have $1,500 wrapped up into the carb itself, but he's got $40k+ sunk into the rest of it. WOT thrust is one thing....but lets see how that thing runs around when its not going in a straight line with the drivers foot in the oil pan for 1,320ft at a time.
That article makes it sound like the carb was what tied it altogether and was the missing link needed to complete the build. Never mind that he went from an F1R to a big ol 88mm turbo set up at the same time?!? You don't think he could have made as much power, or more had he build it from the start as an EFI?
If someone is building it from scratch....sure, the sky is the limit. Run whatever you want. But when I see someone scrap their EFI system, just to backwards convert their set up to a carb because it's "simpler" and "cheaper".....even though removing the EFI and buying the needed parts for the conversion was probably more complex and expensive than just having the prior EFI set up tuned properly to start with, I have to shake my head.
No **** poor fuel economy
No filthy emmisions
No doggy warm weather performance
No blown power valves, or yearly carb kits
No need to rejett for elevation, or weather
No sitting in the car, freezing your ass off to keep it running during cold start
No stalling in the rain at every traffic light
No need to smell like raw fuel wherever you go
No having to convince yourself you made the right decision ripping a perfectly good EFI system off of your car, to backwards convert your engine to some archaic carburetor, no matter how much it cost, or how much trouble it gives you.
I'll agree that an EFI car will outperform a carbureted version when comparing efficiency, and emissions, but the rest of that sounds like crap.
I will not try to convince you that a carburetor isn't a "fuel leak". Despite the fact that most of those exaggerations you used to make your point were pulled straight out of your butt. As long as you think that every carb user has to rebuild his carb yearly, or the driver smells like gas, or that the car stalls in the rain at every light. pretty much tells me that you refuse to even think rationally in the argument.
and I gotta ask....
What does an EFI car do to help the driver avoid freezing in the morning on a cold start? ( I know you're not gonna say remote start,..unless you can associate every FI car w/it)
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s and giggles consider me an 18 y/o undecided voter. Why does every boosted build in this part of the forum run stand alone or modified factory efi?
