The controversy between carburetors and EFI has always been about complexity and price. Carburetors are simple—EFI is not. Carburetors are cheap—or at least cheaper than EFI. Those points have not ...
A carburetor and a throttle body both feed air into the engine, but confusingly, a carburetor has its own throttle body. Here ...
Most modern vehicles have multi-port fuel injection (MFI) with a separate fuel injector for each cylinder. This system mixes the fuel and air together right in the intake port for eachengine cylinder ...
This is the twin TBI setup attached to the top of the new cross-ram manifold. Note that fuel enters the left TBI unit first and then on to the right unit before being returned to the tank. Although ...
Standard Motor Products added new fuel injectors, GDI fuel pumps and service kits for import and domestic applications.
The carbureted car and truck era phased out by the early '90s. Carbs are still in use today on a few motorcycles, lawn mowers, and other power equipment, but electronic fuel injection (EFI) is ...
Here’s how you started a car with a carburetor on a cold morning back in the “good old days.” You’d pull out the choke, pump the throttle a few times, and turn the key. If you didn’t overdo it and ...
In the past, trying to convert your older truck from standard carburetion to modern fuel injection was not only difficult, it was costly as well. Assuming you could install all the parts correctly, ...
You love late-model muscle cars, but do you understand what makes them tick? Do you know why your '10 Camaro SS not only has more power than equivalent cars of the '60s, but also with vastly better ...
In order for a petrol engine to run at its most efficient, fuel must be metered into it in precise amounts. If it is supplied with too much fuel then it will run 'rich', causing excessive fuel ...