<VV> Toyota - some Corvair

Thu Aug 19 06:03:46 EDT 2010

 Again, untrue! For drag cars, they ONLY make real power at the top end. Properly set up FI WILL outrun a carb any day of the week. Operative phrase, properly set up. Hillborn setups and the like have their own set of problems seldom seen in EFI systems. 
Technically speaking, no reason in the world why EFI can't outdo a carb in ANY scenario. 

John Roberts

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Thu, Aug 19, 2010 1:41 am
Subject: Re: <VV> Toyota - some Corvair

At 03:39 PM 8/16/2010, Dave Keillor wrote:

>More torque does not necessarily equal more horsepower.  It depends on

>what rpm the "more torque" occurs.  I do agree, though, that torque is a

>more meaningful measure than horsepower.

It's also meaningful that FI for some reason still seldom seems to 

ever make as much top end raw horsepower as a properly set up carburetor.

This has been proven time and again on drag strips for many 

years.   You wanna see the record holder in door slammer 

classes?   Look for the race car with the carb...  and NO I'm not 

talking about classes where the car's restricted to carbs only, I'm 

talking about open induction classes... which used to run FI until 

modern carbs kicked their asses which meant that everybody went to 

carbs...  even the bracket classes and modifieds that used to run 

injection are now running quicker with carbs.

But on a road course it's a different story altogether.

tony..  

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