Monday, January 10, 2011

Fuel Injection

Most of the muscle car community is almost scared to talk about fuel injection. They say that its not what's really supposed to be in older cars, or that modern technology, like fuel injection is almost over rated. An that it is also way overpriced. I will agree with them on one thing, that will be the price. Some kits are selling upwards of $5,000+, then you still have to get it tuned. F.A.S.T has come to the rescue with their EZ-EFI carb to EFI kit. It fits on any 4150 carburetor flanged intake manifold. The best part about this kit is that its pretty much plug an play. You bolt on the throttle body, plug some wires in, set up the programmer an your ready for the streets. A nice feature is if one of the injector wires comes loose or off, the programmer adjusts for it an adds more fuel to compensate for the one less injector.Allowing you to drive your vehicle till you can plug it back in. The single throttle body system is good for 600 hp, the twin kit, which is $800 more, is good for 1000+ hp. The single throttle body system is $2,136.99, if you add the second throttle body, injectors, and linkage, It comes to $3,010.98. A little over $3,000 gets you a fuel injection system good for over 1,000 hp. The system also self tunes itself, no tuning experience or laptop needed for your tune. Another thing that really gives a yes to fuel injection is the gas mileage. You could expect 20+ mpg, with work done to your motor. I'm not saying you can't get good gas mileage from carburetor, you can just get more then with the carb. Because in stead of having like one big injector for all of your cylinders (carburetor), you get 8, one for each cylinder. Letting less fuel needed to get the same power or even more power. More of the fuel gets burned, letting your motor get the most power from your gas. So if it would be up to me, I'd go with fuel injector, simply because of better fuel economy, more power, an easier to tune, then the conventional carburetor.

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