carbed engine?

[BMXunleashed]

ok so call me an idiot but what advantages disadvantages of having a carbed engine or EFI..... ive always been under the impression that EFI is better power and milage....but i like carbs the simplicity of em....i like simple things....in fact i wish my explorer had as little electronis as possible. just because it makes things easier to figure out whats wrong....ya know?....specially for a toy truck i dont like to have to have relays and **** checked to know whats wrong...id like to be on the premiss of spark, fuel, and air....hahaha
...just kinda curious.....



anyone have a carbed OHV 4.0L?

 

[Spdrcer34]

IMO, Switching to carb'd set-up would cause OTHER driveability issues...especially offroad.....ever try to go up a somewhat steep incline in a carb'd vehicle?

You will create more issues than you think, and only cause reliability problems down the road.

The Ford EFI set-up is pretty darn reliable. It's not like it's a unique design, that nobody knows anything about....it's a Ford EFI.....if you wanna get rid of some useless crap, unload the A/C system out of the Explorer...otherwise, leave the rest of it alone...

 

[dogfriend]

Is this Explorer an off road vehicle only? Cause that's the only way you could switch to a carb setup. Otherwise they will fine you for disabling the emission controls.

On the practical side, you would have to find an intake manifold from a mid 80's Ranger to mount a carb. My parents used to have an 83 Ranger - it really didn't run all that well.

 

[BMXunleashed]

oh ya, i had forgotten about emmision controls.......ok, just curious

 

[dogfriend]

If you look at the history of introducing fuel injection, it basically happened because it was becoming impossible to meet the emissions requirements with a carb system. I owned a couple of Japanese trucks with carbs, and they were even more complicated than a fuel injection system in an attempt to meet Calif emission requirements. My last carb equipped vehicle was an 82 Toyota Pickup. It had dozens of vacuum valves and lines running everywhere.