It's a trend we are seeing a lot more of: Even the most dyed-in-the-wool carburetor guys are ditching their mechanical mixers for electronic fuel injection. One recent convert explained his motivation ...
For the casual enthusiast, the romance of lifting the hood of your project car and swapping that old-fashioned carburetor for high-tech electronic fuel injection (EFI) was often shattered by the ...
Many car crafters roll their eyes and tune out when bench racing turns to electronic fuel injection (EFI). We're not here to hijack you into believing that EFI is cheap or even simple. Carburetors ...
Mike has been an automotive writer since 2007. He’s also the author of a 32,000+ word ebook on the inner workings of cars, suspensions, and engines, with 2 chapters on quick and easy performance ...
Gasoline engines are fairly simple creatures - fuel is mixed with air and inducted into a cylinder, the piston compresses the mixture and a spark ignites it, causing combustion, then gases expand to ...
If you grew up in the '60s, seeing a car with Weber carbs-those eight stacks gulping in air to feed some sort of octane-burning monster-would make you take notice. Amongst a sea of four-barrel ...
Carburetors get a bad rap. They honestly are a lot easier to work with and a lot more reliable than people think they are. They’re just not as easyt o work with as an EFI system, which is hands-off ...
ST Microelectronics developed a Small Engine EFI reference design and is teamed up with Arrow Electronics to supply these boards quickly to customers. See Figure 1. What is the advantage 1 of ...
In the past, trying to convert your older truck from standard carburetion to modern fuel injection was not only difficult, it was costly as well. Assuming you could install all the parts correctly, ...
Vanguard expands its lineup of electronic fuel injection offerings to include a horizontal-shaft Small Block V-Twin engine. The Small Block engine features an open-loop EFI system with electronic ...
In the beginning, there were horses and buggies (and buggy whip makers). Then, around 1860, some clever folks figured out that mixing oil-derived “gasoline” with ...