Another "Is Fuel Injection a Worthwhile Upgrade?" Question

goldduster318 said
CAFE is the corporate average fuel economy standard (hence the acronym) and EPA tailpipe regulations are why catalytic converters show up. You don't even recognize that they are separate things. Health is effected by air pollution. There are doomsday people but the air in LA or Chicago would look like Shanghai or Beijing if you were in charge. The smog was really bad in those places in the 70s and even I remember Chicago not being super good in the early 90s and it's actually significantly better now. So the fact that you hate this stuff doesn't really matter. It's not going back.

So which is it? They aren't rollers. You never said it has to be the same. I mean you love blanket statements and contradictions. It still needs the oil film not to scuff

Also, you run roller cams all the time in what? It's kind of like tuning modern EFI, not sure why we have any reason to believe you know that. Carbs, yes, I'm fine with that.

Carb icing is a real thing, especially when you don't have any of the anti-icing stuff like a heat riser, exhaust crossover, heated intake tube to the air cleaner. When your transfer slots are frozen the car runs like absolute total ****, its happened to me. They teach about carb icing when they are training for a pilot's license since it's even more likely to happen in that application. Its 50F or less and over 80% humidity here A LOT.
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/carburetor-icing

I have no doubts that you can help someone work through carb issues with enough time and enough screwing around and improved results. They just have big drawbacks for a lot of people, but you said it's all bullshit. Not offering a solution. There is a topic floating around somewhere here where I asked about fixing any of the issues with transition on this very forum way back when and only ONE person did anything to help with the IFRs and air bleeds that got the thing to work effectively to the point where it even worked when warm in the first place. The rest I figured out on my own. This is why I think the average guy will have a much easier time with EFI so they can enjoy their car instead of spending the next 3 weeks messing with it to get a halfway decent tune up on it for a warm/dry day.

Once again, CAFE standards. Get that? It’s all part of the same issue. If you think tail pipe emissions are killing the earth ride a bike like they have to in China.

So you have carb icing issues. It’s a good thing that EFI came along just as the earths temperature started to drop. Otherwise, no one would have been able to drive anywhere with-laying around in Stock Eliminator with it, he put 2 x 4’s on it. My mom would take us to school in it. I had to go out and scrape ice and snow off the windows. The old man would put SNOW TIRES on it every winter. 4.56 gears, a 4 speed and the 2 x 4’s and my MOM could drive it. Never iced up. I can’t explain how others get carb icing, but how did people go anywhere before EFI?

I get why people have carb issues. Virtually EVERY book is wrong. All of them. Guys read the books and try to do as the book says and it sucks. That’s not a carb issue. Like I said before, Holley is the biggest reason why people are carb ignorant. They’ve had decades to develop the education of the public on carburation, and yet, they didn’t.

They decided to leave that up to the aftermarket, and no one wants to give away free what they make money on.

Again, CAFE and if you want to separate the two the unconstitutional EPA, the giant unelected bureaucracy that makes law and is wholly unaccountable to anyone are the reasons why we have what we have today.

The earth is fine with the exception of the fools who think man is destroying the planet, and the same fools will accept any and every “remedy” to save something that doesn’t need saved, just to feel good about themselves.

EDIT: what do YOU run roller cams in? Unreal.