look, he might have slagged off microwreck (sorry - microtech
), but the main point is that setup and tuning a carb is heaps cheaper and that's why people still do it.
he said "$2g to purchase/install and tune" and that's pretty conservative if you ask me. it's $1400 minimum for the ECU. Taht only leaves $600 for the EFI pump, EFI rated hoses, modifed tank for a return line, custom fuel rail, injectors, modified manifold to mount the injectors, AFM, etc. (Forget the MT4 - if you're going to all that trouble and expense who's going to bother with a fuel only computer?) All that stuff isn't free and little things quickly add up. And then you've still got to get it tuned.
Or you get a common 1.75" SU and a few hundred to get it set up properly - if you don't just do it yourself.
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there is no way in hell you can jet a carby for two radically different fuel requirements that switches in the middle of the rev range.
actually, you can do a
reasonable job of that if you spend the time modifying the SU needle, and if the turbo is sensibly sized. Or if you had a mech 2bbl carb like I had on my turbo A14...
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come to think of it, i'd like to see the results actually.
your carby turbo'd tractor engine against my EFI'd NA quad cam. my car weighs 1321kgs, so i think it'd be a fair match. i'll post my 1/4mile times, then you post yours. how does that sound?
having bunged together a much rougher A14 turbo setup (J pipe and std inlet manifold) which went like a cut snake, I know who my money's on here! Claimed power from the 1UZFE is only 255bhp, and those figures are normally a little optomistic. I love it when tractors/dinosaurs/whatever embarrass expensive modern quad this multi that motors...
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