Carbs or Fuel injection ? Options

[ILM914]

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

[wonkipop]

its (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) how the circle turns.

back in 89 when i bought my humble 74 L jet 1.8 most folks i ran into in the USA thought the L jet was rubbish and i should tear it off. D jet was superior etc.

anyway i kept it because i bought it for the L jet. call me a nerd. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

these days down here in aus, i probably have the only fully original intact L jet on the road. i've never run across another one in the flesh. though nihil44 up in brisbane has the set up but i am not sure if its original or he has pieced it back together from other sources. there are still a few d jet 914s on the road down here - but generally most of them seem to have been converted along the way to dual carbs.

funnily enough i now get a little bit of respect from mechanics who look at the car.
they often come up to me in the street to ask about the car and then i find out talking to them they are mechanics or retired mechanics. once i open the engine lid they are in there looking it over. their interest is purely for the historical curiousity i guess of the first L jet system on a car.
kind of like looking over a model T ford or something? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

but boy some of these parts have now entered the realm of long gone and it will be a shame if i have to start departing from the original condition of things.
wouldn't make as much sense to be keeping it then. the point from where i stand is to preserve it as a bit of technological archeology.

i don't think there is anything wrong with converting to carbs. if you have to you have to.