Poll
Question: Your preference?
Inspired by the TC 5.0L swap thread, which do you prefer, and why?
Personally my preference has always been the less technological setup. Carburated cars, IDI mechanical diesels, standard transmitions etc... Maby I'm just slow to adapt.
However, obviously EFI is much better for your average dirver, (less maitenence, starts easyer in cold, marginally better fuel mileage).
i voted EFI
tuneability of it, with an EEC tuner, you can do so many things with the EFI system its unbelieable
with a turbo or supercharged carb setup, id personally be worried about running lean because a carb isnt always able to compensate for boost like an EFI system can
EFI for me as well. I know that technically you should be able to pull off more horse with a naturally aspirated engine. But I guess I like putting my money on the tech end of EFI.
Efi
Even though I have a full Carb setup ready to go on my car, I vote EFI because of the unmatched smoothness, efficiency and throttle response. Not to mention the expandability of it.
Eventually I'll upgrade to EFI. Right now I just need something to replace the CFI.
I prefer (and voted) EFI because I'm a "new-school" mechanic. I do not have a lot of experience working on carburetors at all.
That being said, should I ever decide to do something silly like drop a 351 into the T-Bird I'd go with carbureted simply because of cost. A Performer 4bbl manifold and holley carb are a lot cheaper than an aftermarket EFI upper/lower manifold (including the 351-specific lower), injectors, MAF, throttle body, fuel pump and computer/chip. Besides, I live in an emissions-free province so I can get away with it :D Cold weather driveability is a non-issue as the car would never see cold weather.
..and here I am with a carbed 351 I wanna convert to EFI.. heh.
I guess that clears up how I voted. :p
EFI, you gotta love remote start.
After drooling over 87Cleveland's EFI 351c, I'd say EFI.
EFI for all the reasons stated above ;)
Old skool carb guy here.... but I voted EFI as well
I too voted efi even though i am one of the few young guys to have owned and messed with carbed cars since i was 16(28 now).
Since i wrote the giant swap write upo for the tc 5.0l swap i know how difficult and time consuming it can be to run efi but it is well worth the pain and money in the end.
You get such a smoother running better performing pakage out of efi.
Now if only i could convert my 75 351M to efi,O to dream. :sleep:
you can convert it, even using a carburated intake manifold
There will be better to get a efi. Here will be better to get and EFI IF its in good condition, but because here the EFI parts are too expensive, getting a efi in good shape its a real pain, and when its broke oh no....but there in the U.S the parts are cheap. For Mexico, my choice is the carb, its not bad at all....
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:ies: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:
years ago i was into carbs..
my 76 cordoba had a 400cid and a pure hard top which was rare and it had a big ole race thermo quad
and my old 73 cadillac fleetwood which had a 472 punched 30 over and had a 850 quadra jet with two jaguar injectors drilled into a one inch spacer the car made about 650foot pounds of torque@3000rpms and 450HP@5400rpms and would rev to 6500rpms.. when i owned that car a lot of people used to tell me they never heard a caddy motor rev to 6500rpms before mine... and my friends,Mike, John and Jerry and i built it
my friends and i used to have fun racing that car on hempstead tpk :evilgrin: everyone would allways respond with... "what the hell is under the hood of that beast!!" and we would just say "a caddy motor!!" :evilgrin: i guess people just wanted to see what the caddy had since it had 26/10.5's sportsman pro's under the scerts a fuel pump hanging off the rear bumper :evilgrin: one day on DPA i raced a monte carlo and after he was like what the hell!! lol so he wanted to see what the car can do from the side and just watching so i did a holeshot and the car hooked and streched the front end to it's max and went about 40feet and blew the driveshaft into peices!!oops! i did'nt have boost back then but i did have HP!! the guy could'nt beleave that a caddy could do that... and was so cool about it that he pushed me home with his mint monte carlo all the way home..
anyway i know my long storys...
if would have put a carb on my cougar with the blower i would'nt be getting the 18MPH on the streets and 25-27MPH on the highway i'm getting now. i would be getting about 5-8MPH on the streets and 12-15 on the highway.. like some of the guys here said theirs not enough ajustability with a carb for fuel mileage..
Nick