Engine Builder Magazine 431FE 500+HP comparo Fuel Inj vs Carb

[Qikbbstang]

Admired the job the tricked Holley 650 HP did against a 1200cfm rated throttle body.  This is a link to PDF, If the PDF does not open to FE article, page flip to page 32. BTW article was cover story:



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[lovehamr]

Interesting.

[LuxurySportCoupe]

I might have missed it, but what heads were they using? What were the cam specs? Why only a 4.125 crank? Inquiring minds want to know.

[fe66comet]

It would seem that if nothing were changed and the engine was originally optimized for a carb that gains would be minimal. Port configuration, chamber design and compression all can be optimized for fuel injection giving better gains than just simply changing the carb for a throttle body.

[BB-63]

Interesting comparison.  It would be neat to see a comparison between an expertly tuned carb setup vs. an expertly tuned EFI setup, i.e. rather than the self learning type EFI.  I suspect a distributorless setup would unlock a little more fine tuning potential with respect to the EFI? - Garrett