Another "Is Fuel Injection a Worthwhile Upgrade?" Question

pishta said
Never enough.... Were still talking street cars, right? Are any of these points invalid? Carter put an altitude compensator on the later Thermoquads because they thought it would help high altitude AFR's. Feedback carburetors were developed to tighten emissions by monitoring and increasing the combustion percentage. EGR allowed engines to run cooler and decrease NOx. All of these were evolutionary to the original carburetor, and all of these are now controlled in a dynamic fashion with EFI. How about a race profile with an optimum line lock, rev limit (even shift capabilities) or nitrous window with built in retard based on RPM...and then a street profile that doesnt include any of this track stuff? You can have the best race tune and the best street tune literally at the touch of a button on a screen of a tablet or even your phone. A NASCAR spare motor doesnt make a good street motor.

Ok, what’s the difference between your “race” tune and your “street” tune? Who in the hell is talking about a NASCAR engine on the street.

We are talking about if EFI is worth the money for a street/strip car or even a strip car, not about mass market surface transportation unless I’m in the wrong forum.

I say it’s not. It won’t make the same power, and if you spend some time on a carb you will get the same drivability as EFI. But you just can’t buy an off the shelf carb, throw it on and expect magic. You know what I mean right? Like call one of the big mail order houses and order some non descript junk assed carb woth a choke and spend 5 or 600 bucks on it and call it good.

If you say why not spend say 12-1500 bucks and get a carb custom built, you’ll hear how insane that is. But the same dude has no problem paying double or more for EFI. But that’s ok.

I’m not even talking about emissions. These aren’t emissions cars. I do know how we are getting so far off what the OP asked.

Is EFI worth the extra money. I say no. It’s that simple really.