Another "Is Fuel Injection a Worthwhile Upgrade?" Question

pishta said

$12-1500 can get you into an MS3 easily. Is it gonna take $700-1000 of custom work over the price of a new $500 750 carb to get it to work to your example of a track carbs level of performance... Let's go back to the OP (or anyone who's interested in doing this swap) and ask what its building for before we look at the extremes of a dyno/track carb compared to the OEM driveability of an EFI system. This seems to have become a pigeonholed debate on max HP vs. Driveability. I think examples of either can be built and compared.

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It’s not about Max HP.

Let’s take your example of 1500 for MS3. That’s not the ONLY cost of EFI. Not even close. So that’s disingenuous at best.

For under 2k you can get a carb that will do everything EFI will except pass CAFE standards (this is a performance website, not a tree hugging, save the world from a fake boogie man place and the carb won’t have the same cold start as EFI unless you bother to hook up a fast idle system to it, which wouldn’t be that hard.

You pump the pedal a few times, hit the key and when it starts it would idle at 1200-1400 and you’d be down the road. Again, the choke and Holley and their idiotic tuning books that are filled with crap have done more damage to carbs than anything else except government forced auto manufacturing.