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To carb or not to carb....
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
Originally Posted by damien8618
a carb is alot more reliable then fi, because there is nothing to go wrong. everything is mechanical. its obvious u know nothing about carbs like evrybody else on this thread.
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
by the way I'm pretty shure, could be wrong, the 50 vettes came with the option of having fi, that was mechanical and I dont think it was very efficent. but I could be wrong about this, dont know too much about vettes.
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
In case YOU FORGOT, I started this thread. Maybe I'll go with alcohol or methanol injection. That's NOT the case you so feebly stated. You said carbs are for racing, no real drag cars run EFI. EFI is not specific to gasoline. For that matter, I could be running jet fuel, which is not "gasoline".
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
"electronic" fuel injection u bone head, I have never seen a professional drag car with efi, but of course the top fuels run mechanical fuel injection, and fuel injection is a pretty good setup, I think the indy cars run it too.
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
indy cars dont use mechanical fuel injection. almost everything on the car is electronic. mechanical cant keep up with an engine that revs 18000rpm. i guess its not a race car either then. i personally know several owners in the indy racing league. you keep trying to keep the same argument. but your wrong. FI is superior to a carb.
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
Originally Posted by damien8618
The big difference between fi and carbs is that fi is for street use, it was built to control emissions by constanly adjusting the air/fuel ratio, and carbs are for racing. this is why you never see fi on a drag strip in a real drag car. fi is too unreliable on the drag strip with all the sensors and complicity of the system. with carbs the racer can set the wide open air/fuel ratio to exactly where he wants it and if something goes wrong with the carb it can be unbolted by 4 bolts and a new one put on.
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
i said about it being electronic that was the thing that made it not a race item, does mechanical injection us electronics? mechanical fi is just a step above carbs it just injects the fuel into the intake and the throttle body sucks in a set amount of air for the rpm. and I know almost nothing about indy cars but i'm shure they had mechanical fi, i'll look it up
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Re: To carb or not to carb....
Originally Posted by damien8618
i said about it being electronic that was the thing that made it not a race item, does mechanical injection us electronics? mechanical fi is just a step above carbs it just injects the fuel into the intake and the throttle body sucks in a set amount of air for the rpm. and I know almost nothing about indy cars but i'm shure they had mechanical fi, i'll look it up