Repair-It

One of the most interesting takeaways from the presentation was that all of the knowledge amassed from years of tuning carbs isn’t lost upon moving to fuel injection. In fact, the vast majority of it transfers directly over. The numbers on a fuel table are in many ways just carburetor jet sizes, determined by engine load and rpm. And, tuning a carburetor’s accelerator pump transitions directly into tuning acceleration enrichment tables. Oh, and spark timing is still … well, it’s still just spark timing—only there is far less chance of getting shocked from a faulty plug wire when you’re nestled safely behind a keyboard. I’ve come to understand that fuel injection is just a modern twist on something most of us hot rodders already understand, and that at the end of the day whatever is underneath that guise of digital control, is the same engine we’ve been wrenching on for years.