As I said I wouldn't use my car as a DD because that's not how I built it, but my first car (20yrs ago) was an 85 lx with a factory carb. I drove it for years through college snow, rain, heat and never an issue, I actually never even messed with. The issue isn't weather or not one can make power and the other cant because there both proven. Turbo or supercharger I would go with FI, but yet my father ran a Yenko camaro w/ a supercharger for years and loved it.
After countless FI mustangs I decided to build a carb car and removed my FI. I regretted it at first but not anymore. I took the time to learn about my carb (holley 750 DP) and I played with it. Through trial and error I've been able to tune it with the weather changes and really feel how differently my car performs. I'm not a guru like mike or others but I'm learning. I thinks it's fun working on my car it's why I got back into the hobby. 2 pumps the car starts, warm starts no issues, I'm not sure about freezing temps yet. Gas mileage well I have a large cam and 4:10s I don't pass many gas stations but that's expected. Scared get a dog, chep buy a Prius.
From a reliability standpoint I'd pick a carb any day because I can fix it right on my bench in my garage. I don't worry about sensors, fuel injectors, codes nothing. Not to knock FI I think most people like FI because they're lazy and just want the car to work the same all the time, IMO.
After countless FI mustangs I decided to build a carb car and removed my FI. I regretted it at first but not anymore. I took the time to learn about my carb (holley 750 DP) and I played with it. Through trial and error I've been able to tune it with the weather changes and really feel how differently my car performs. I'm not a guru like mike or others but I'm learning. I thinks it's fun working on my car it's why I got back into the hobby. 2 pumps the car starts, warm starts no issues, I'm not sure about freezing temps yet. Gas mileage well I have a large cam and 4:10s I don't pass many gas stations but that's expected. Scared get a dog, chep buy a Prius.
From a reliability standpoint I'd pick a carb any day because I can fix it right on my bench in my garage. I don't worry about sensors, fuel injectors, codes nothing. Not to knock FI I think most people like FI because they're lazy and just want the car to work the same all the time, IMO.