Carb or TPI? What should I do
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Originally posted by 92RS305#2
do you know the TPI injection was made to imitate the CrossFire injection which was a modified design of the TBI injection which is just an advanced Carb? lol read that on a website. if you got the green go for the TPI (it has more in it for the long run). if your poor like me then go for the carb until you can afford a nice 4th gen with FI. well thats my opinion...
do you know the TPI injection was made to imitate the CrossFire injection which was a modified design of the TBI injection which is just an advanced Carb? lol read that on a website. if you got the green go for the TPI (it has more in it for the long run). if your poor like me then go for the carb until you can afford a nice 4th gen with FI. well thats my opinion...
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What year are these cars? if the carbed one is an 88 or newer than I dont think you will pass New Jersey smog. Are NJ smog checks similar to CA smog checks?
Marc 85Z28: Spoken like a true carb owner.
I can offer the exact same opinion of fuel injection that you do about carb. For someone like me who has worked with nothing but fuel injection, tuning a carb would be as difficult for me as tuning a fuel injection is for you. So its a toss up as to which is better. It depends on your background and what you are used to. Carbs are simpler, but TPI is more user friendly, the computer does all the adjusting for weather and cold starts for you.
Marc 85Z28: Spoken like a true carb owner.
I can offer the exact same opinion of fuel injection that you do about carb. For someone like me who has worked with nothing but fuel injection, tuning a carb would be as difficult for me as tuning a fuel injection is for you. So its a toss up as to which is better. It depends on your background and what you are used to. Carbs are simpler, but TPI is more user friendly, the computer does all the adjusting for weather and cold starts for you.
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Originally posted by Kevin91Z
Marc 85Z28: Spoken like a true carb owner. I can offer the exact same opinion of fuel injection that you do about carb. For someone like me who has worked with nothing but fuel injection, tuning a carb would be as difficult for me as tuning a fuel injection is for you. So its a toss up as to which is better. It depends on your background and what you are used to. Carbs are simpler, but TPI is more user friendly, the computer does all the adjusting for weather and cold starts for you.
Marc 85Z28: Spoken like a true carb owner.
I can offer the exact same opinion of fuel injection that you do about carb. For someone like me who has worked with nothing but fuel injection, tuning a carb would be as difficult for me as tuning a fuel injection is for you. So its a toss up as to which is better. It depends on your background and what you are used to. Carbs are simpler, but TPI is more user friendly, the computer does all the adjusting for weather and cold starts for you.
I really don't want to turn this thread into another carb vs TPI debate so I'll stop there
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Besides the EPA, I think it boils down to a comfort issue. I was immersed in FI when I owned a car and don't know much about carbs so I avoid them. Joe Blow has been around carbs all his life so he is avioding FI because he does not know the significance of the outputs the ECM gives out.
They all have their plusses and minusses. You find carbs easier to tune because you have been around them all your life. I find FI easier to tune because I have been working with them and understand what I am seeing on the screen.
They all have their plusses and minusses. You find carbs easier to tune because you have been around them all your life. I find FI easier to tune because I have been working with them and understand what I am seeing on the screen.
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