Carbs or Fuel injection ? |
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Carbs or Fuel injection ? |
ILM914 |
Oct 24 2022, 09:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 3-March 09 From: NC Member No.: 10,126 Region Association: None |
Hi folks a 914"expert said carbs will burn the valves on a 914 and not run well. Is this true? is the fuel economy worse when using duel carbs? Would you run orig fuel injection on a 2.0 or carbs thank you, Joe
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Jack Standz |
Oct 25 2022, 07:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 363 Joined: 15-November 19 From: Happy Place (& surrounding area) Member No.: 23,644 Region Association: None |
Yes, modern FI is better compared to the 914's systems (either carbs or FI). But, we're talking about 50 year old motors that never came with the improvements in FI of the last 50 years.
Converting to such a modern sytem is expensive, time consuming & requires quite a bit of understanding. As bbrock nicely points out, carbs have their difficulties too. For some, keeping their 914 stock is the way to go, for others "stock sucks" (i.e. Dave Kindig, whose shop we recently toured at the Red Rocks Classic event). "The VW based Type IV motor was designed with fuel injection from the start." I'm not criticizing, but, I remember our Westfalia with a VW Type IV motor coming from the factory with dual carbs. Just saying. Now the 914 Type IV motor did have a camshaft optimized for FI and was much lighter than a VW bus. However, the point is that even VW itself bolted carbs on Type IV motors. Later VW did upgrade buses to FI. |
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