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[Banana Bonanza]

I don't know what everyone thinks is "wrong" with the carb models. All but two of mine are carburated, and the only real problem I have ever had with them is one pivot that becomes sticky, making the choke have *some* issues until I get my lazy behind in gear to deal with it. Combined, to date, my wife I have driven about 200,000 miles with our cars, with an average of 40 MPG. JMO, but I'll put that in the "win" column!

Michael

Feedback carbs in general when everything is working, work well enough. I had no complaints for most part when I had the feedback on the B3 and for most part prefer it over a fuelie system. But boy is it a complicated sysem to diagnose when it does act up. You are basically diagnosing a mechanical carb and diagnosing a fuelie system at same time in same car. Kinda the worst of both worlds. At least the carb Festies have a vacuum advance distributor which eliminates that from consideration. Most feedback carb systems have computer controlling the ignition advance. When the carb started acting up PLUS with the engine pushing oil, I swapped engines and went to a Weber. When needed I can take Weber off the car, clean it, put new kit in it and have it back on the car in half hour. The old feedback carb, well it was designed to make it a royal pain just to get it off the car, then you have to label lot stuff in order to be able to reconnect it.

As to fuelie systems, when they work, they are fine, when they dont they are a pain if you dont have the tools to diagnose them. Unless you have a donor car to swap parts from, playing sensor, sensor, who's got the sensor trying to blindly replace things by guessing can get quite expensive and frustrating. Even if you do correctly diagnose problem, still most likely the repair is going to cost far more than on a mechanical carb system.

[FB71]

As to fuelie systems, when they work, they are fine, when they dont they are a pain if you dont have the tools to diagnose them. Unless you have a donor car to swap parts from, playing sensor, sensor, who's got the sensor trying to blindly replace things by guessing can get quite expensive and frustrating. Even if you do correctly diagnose problem, still most likely the repair is going to cost far more than on a mechanical carb system.

I completely disagree. I find EFI systems much easier to work on. All I need is a jumper wire and a cheap digital meter. I don't need a parts car or known good parts, and replacement parts are not that expensive, when they fail, which is typically less often than mechanical systems.

It all comes down to this; whatever you are most familiar with is the easiest to diagnose and repair.

[muscle_Car1]

^ i agree but then again I also own both carby & FI festy's