TGIHC, Thank God I Have Carbs Options

[Ansbacher]

Wow, with all the D-Jet issues being posted lately and owners pulling their hair out trying to identify the problems to repair, I am very thankful to have two simple and reliable Dellorto carbs on my car. Yes, I would love the smoother experience of F.I. but wondering if it is really worth the aggravation.

Ansbacher

[ClayPerrine]

I have just the opposite opinion from Ansbacher. Betty's 914 has the original L-Jet on it and it runs great. Our factory six with webers, on the other hand, ran like crap. Hard starting, flooding, wouldn't idle, coughing and spitting, etc. I went over everything on the engine to make sure it was right before I started on the carbs.

To be completely honest, I don't like carbs. Even D-Jet injection is a step up from carbs. I even considered the idea of hiding a megasquirt system in the air cleaner to make it run better. But for originality, i bit the bullet and took the carbs to a pro. Found out that in the past a bunch of internal parts on the carbs were replaced, and they were way out of adjustment. Wrong venturis. No two idle jets were the same, a mix of main jets and emulsion tubes, and completely non-functional accelerator pumps. I got them back, and after some tweaking, It runs 1000% better. But we have no way to get real gas here, and the ethanol really screws up the carbs. I still have a small flat spot off idle. I have increased the idle jet sizes, and I am going to remove the accelerator pump check valves and replace them with new ones without the bleed hole to increase the accelerator pump injection volume.

All that crap because of the crappy gas here.

In my opinion, FI is much better than carbs. Even almost 50 year old FI.