whats the pros and cons of fuel injected and carbureted. I heard that carbs doesnt work well in cold and rainy weather.

 

From my limited experience I would say FI is more efficient but more expensive and complex to work on.

Other than cost, the main advantage of a carb is it is easier to work on with no electronics. Not much can go wrong with a carb if you keep it clean. A carb disadvantage would be getting it set up and tuned for a specific application other than the original one. Getting the last 10% of performance out of a carb takes patient tuning.

 

fi gets better fuel mileage and is more reliable carb will make more power for alot less money and is easier to tune and has been proved to make great power since the 50's

 

Carbs is what's been in use since the previous turn of the century, in all places and climates of the world.. FI's only been around for 20-30 or so years, and only became common because of emission demands.

 

I have had several of both, all kinds of carb set ups, and different FI types. I would take a carb and worse fuel economy any day over poor throttle response and engine trouble codes.

A carb deposits fuel down the intake as soon as you press that go pedal, regardless of what the engine is doing. I have always experienced that a stock carb vs. stock FI has been more crisp on throttle response. Another thing is tune-ability- if I am racing at the strip, I can change the rods and seats, be done with it, and not pay more than 16.95 for the carb tuning kit. With FI, you pay for chips, programmers, computers, and it takes longer (in my opinion) to set up pulse dwell, timing, and pressure than a carb ever has. More power is just the start of the advantages for the home mech, less out of pocket expense, as well as easier set-up. I have yet to see a FIPK $200 kit for a carb

 

I had a crossfire car, ran like junk i rebuilt it, twice, still didnt run right, i switched it to a 91 TBI setup, it ran better made more power, but i spent the whole summer 10 weeks, waiting on hcips to be modified and sent back from a friend of mine 2 states over, with all the effort i got poor power, to much fuel and i could nt spin the tires. only correct part was the spark curve. i switched to carb, this week, I smoked my first set of rubbers this afternoon with a Q-Jet. it took me 2 days to switch from TBI to a CARB I spent $18 on a rebuild kit and I got the carb for free from another rusted up 1970's truck

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carb disadvantages, can be temperamental with changes in the weather, has limits on how close it can be tuned, to be tuned you must get under the hood.

carb advantages, easier to work on for most people, good power, good fuel mileage if set up right, cheaper on initial install.



fuel injection disadvantages, expensive on initial install & setup, more to go wrong, steep learning curve to learn how to tune, intimidating to most people.

fuel injection advantages, can be tuned for all running conditions, better overall driveablity & fuel mileage than a carb, can be tuned with out opening the hood, cleaner exhaust emissions than a carb.

 

FI is easier to tune & find problems that may occur down the road. Carb is the way to go if your planning on adding serious HP or you just want that "old school" engine-look & power. You can do so much more with a carb than FI, but if you plan to store this car for 5-7 months out of the year more preventative maintenance is required with a carb.

My opinion...go with the traditional, musclecar carb & leave the FI for the cruiser-luxury cars.