Compression Ratio and Boost Query
While all that may be true, a carburetor can never manage fuel and ignition like a computer.
True. To a degree. My gen 3 hemi runs a 750 vacuum secondary with a tps and obviously distributiorless ignition. The only real advantage to go to fuel injection in my case, would be a swap over to a full outboard ECM like a Holly Terminator or similar. The benefit really isn’t in each electronic system being better. Its the ability to side-chain their input/output controls via other portions of the system. So, bolting on a Sniper system that can’t directly communicate with my MSD hemi 6 ignition would likely gain little advantage over a properly tuned carb outside of cold starts (I am running no choke) My point is: its never just the one component. Its the coupled system.
Beyond that, a carb is a much more elegant device than FI. Its reactive to affordance from the natural environment without external controls.(other than the throttle)
FI operates in a loop via binary external control, and if you count the 1000’s of silicon layer ‘transistors’ in the ECM as the electromechanical devices they truly are, it takes a thousand switches to operate one inductor/solenoid (fuel injector) thats about as inefficient as it gets systematically. It just gets ignored because most people view ECMs as a device and not a machine. If one is looking for systematic efficiency and repairability, a simple carb/points ignition is the way to go for gain vs. simplicity.
I am not saying FI isn’t the way to go in some applications. I just disagree that its ‘better’ overall in-and-of itself, and that ECM’s aren’t great unless they can utilize the input you need them too.