[crazypete]

After tormenting myself with EFI, having tons of electronics failures (and I'm an Electrical Engineer!), I went carb. I am SO happy with my choice.

All the time....

I see all these postings of the form: "oh no, what MAF/injectors/chip do I use with this or that maf/injectors/chip" and I see people wasting thousands of dollars on electronics when a simple springloaded box can do the exact same thing. For the cost of a MAF, I can get the whole fuel metering system. The you still need injectors, an upper intake, a fuel pressure regulator and countless other things. You change something big...oh no! Now you need to buy all that crap all over again. I just need to turn some screws.

=) Sorry, memories of my EFI nightmares.....

Honestly,

If you go carb, it's for simplicity, low cost and ease of upgrade and, in all cold honesty......reliability. Ever since my carb swap, I have not had a single "car not starting" or "car mysteriously dying" incident. It always runs. If the temperature drops 40 degrees overnight and goes from dry summer to peasoup fog and I dont go up front to adjust the idle screws, it will run a _little_ lopey when it's cold. Thats it. I just set it to run rich in the summer and just right in the winter. I use 72's all around all year long.

Plus, if you pop the hood, you get the instant respect of every old guy. They get like tears in their eyes that some "kid" is running a good ole holley. =)

Really cleans up the enginebay as well. Just look at my avatar. Sorry bout the chevy orange, I dont know what came over me. It's getting ford blue when I finish porting the gt-40p's

Good luck!