Carburetor or Fuel Injected. Which one do you prefer? To most people it doesn’t matter. As long as it runs, gets them from point A to point B, they’re happy. But to a select few, it makes the world of difference.
All cars that are produced today are fuel injected, or EFI. Cars were carburetor from day 1 until the late 80’s, when it became mandatory to be EFI by law. With emissions being a big issue, they figured that fuel injected engines would be better on gas. There are Carburetor engines that are better on fuel than some EFI engines.
Fuel consumption just depends on who’s driving the vehicle, where they are driving it, what are the conditions they are driving in, and if they have cruise control on.
When driving with cruise control on, an EFI maybe better on fuel, because when your vehicle comes to a hill, it will gear down to overtake the hill. With a carburetor engine, when it gears down like the EFI, it becomes harder on fuel, but the carburetor has a feature that the EFI doesn’t have. The carburetor has a four barrel, or two barrel on some. The four barrel is what mix’s the air and fuel.
Some people argue that EFI make more power than Carburetor. One web site said “Carburetor enthusiasts argue that carburetors make more power over port injection because the fuel helps "cool" the intake manifold. If this were true, what about Throttle Body Injection? I have seen little evidence to prove that carburetors out-perform port EFI on identical engines and vice-versa in controlled conditions.” Meaning that if carburetor keeps the intake cool and makes the engine work better, but the “Throttle Body Injection” (TBI), which is a type of EFI system, is very similar to the carburetor. With that being said, they are the same performance wise.
The cost is widely argued. The startup cost of a carburetor is cheaper, but in the long run, EFI is said to be cheaper. EFI has less hassle to repair; it just has to be electrically programmed. But for some people, it is just as easy to use the carburetor. The carburetor is very easy to tune, but has costly parts that have to be replaced every now and then.
Performance up grades like turbo and super chargers are very compatible with the EFI system, while carburetor is not so good.
Myself, I prefer carburetors over EFI, but in the winter time, or any time that your car is warming up, the EFI is a lot less hassle.
The pros outnumber the cons for EFI, and vice versa for Carburetors, but I’ll still take a Carburetor over an EFI any day.
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