Date:         Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:42:28 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark McCulley <raven@HALCYON.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Mark McCulley <raven@HALCYON.COM>
Subject:      Re: Carbs on my '91 Westie Syncro---"The Story"
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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.