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Old 04-08-2014, 12:40 AM   #17 (permalink)
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fuel injection is much simpler to troubleshoot accurately. You pop off an injector, put it in a beaker, and make sure it sprays the right amount vs time, and double check the spray pattern. The air delivery by itself is rarely in need of troubleshooting. The electronics are way more reliable to boot and the computational power fits on a $3 chip.

In a carb, who the hell knows what is actually going on, you have fudgy circuits that fudge overlap different "speed" ranges, sorta, and screws and a dirty air filter can throw the A/F off, or a small induction leak, or change in altitude, or change in temperature or humidity, cornering, in addition to all the circuit/jet/needle/air bleeds fudge...

No, carburetors need to die for over the road, and they did, and lets keep it that way. EFI is infinitely more precise over a wide variety of operating conditions.
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