carb vs fuel injection
On my carb vehicles (the ones that came that way from the factory) they do fine of course but you don't realize how pampered you are with the fuel injection setup till you have tried both on the same vehicle.
I was one of the first (Im sure someone was doing it at the same time somewhere on the planet) that put tune port on a non tune port fbody in the day. Was fun to say the least.
I had an entire donor car side by side with my 85 trans am at the time so that helped a ton. Since the first swap over I switched it back and for probably 5 times or more. The holley, edelbrock, etc carbs I used on it were never as pleasant to drive, crank, etc as the efi was. Also the carbs really dropped in power as they aged. Basically got dirty. I never did figure out how stuff got past the fuel filters to the carbs but it did. Never had a problem with the tpi setup doing that.
Power wise the carb setup made more power hands down. I had a real issue with it reving so fast it thru the belts off
I never did convert that car to a serpentine belt and should have. Also it never dawned on me at the time (mannny years ago) that if the carb was throwing the belts it obviously was revving a crap load faster than the tpi was.But at the end of the day the tpi was just smoother, more reliable and generally fun to drive.
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Last edited by drjimmy; Jan 2, 2015 at 08:36 PM.
IIRC, the TPI system was not built to be a high revving unit. A truck intake unless I am mistaken.















