After 19 years of owning a bus with carburators and 2.5 years with a fuel-injected Vanagon, you couldn't pay me enough to rip out my FI and replace it with carbs. In my opinion, FI is a big improvement over carburators in many ways. The only advantage I can think of with carbs is that they rarely catastrophically fail. I can understand Malcolm's situation though--since the entire FI system was destroyed it made economical sense to use a carburator. But it certainly was not an improvement over the FI system--didn't he say the van wouldn't idle when cold? -Mark McCulley At 08:55 AM 3/25/98 -0800, Backus, Brian G wrote: >#2 I agree that carburetors are a great alternative to fuel injection. >So much more simple and less expensive. Maybe it won't run quite as >smooth or get as good of gas mileage, but you can tune it for more >power. Plus if someone can come up with an aftermarket intake manifold >for a performer type application or even a RV/Mileage application that >fits nice and neat under the lid. You all catch my drift. Think of all >the money and hair loss we'll all save when the fuel injection pukes. |
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