Dellorto Carbs v. FI, 76 2.0 liter: opinions please Options

[orthobiz]

Looking into a well-kept 76 2.0 liter with 130K.
Strong looker with "no rust" but has carbs and I told myself
I really want injection. The injection parts are in a sealed
cardboard box, car has had carbs (almost typed "crabs") for
15 years or more.

Question is, why did I tell myself I want injection? I'm not a real
CW but one of the vendors' site about buying the 914 has the
"beware the carbs" caveat in the article.

More HP out of the engine with carbs? More reliable? Thanks for advice.

biz

[JoeSharp]

Well maybe, but I went through all of the test methods and the damn thing just screwed with me for a year and a half. After replacing the loom, MPS, cleaning the TPS, checking the AAR, and the CHT, replacing all; vacume and fuel lines grounding points and all the related seals. It still would not run very well at all. Linda could not attend any of the events that she wanted to go to. That is what she bought the car for. I loaned her my driver (twin single carbed 75) to go on the Route 66 run. Linda has concourse tendencies and wanted to keep it stock. I had given up on the car and all, the above work was done by me (replaced and checked parts). She took it to 3 different Porsche shops that said they could fix it. Every time it came out it just ran different, not better, just different.
Soo.... Linda spent $2,400 on other shops. Plus MPS, Bolwsby loom, injectors, trigger points, ground straps, relay board, all hose's and seals.
I had had pulled the car to the jump-off at Williamsburg and turned the car over to Linda there and the group took off. I would meet them at the road from Otman.
When Linda got out of the car the first thing out of her mouth was, "I WANT CARBS ON MY CAR."
For less than the MPS, Boiwsby loom and the injectors. We put duel singles Sollex's with a CB Performance fuel pump and linkage with a new distrabutor and coil. We did not change the cam.
The car seemed a little down on power but I thought it was getting good MPG.
Howard went to the next Route 66 with us and tracked MPG. Howard was in the 911 and myself in Beauty. Howard was getting 25, me 27, Linda was getting mid 40's. On the way home we filled in Parker Az. and drove to H.B. and filled it up.
295 miles on 6 gallons of gas. Thats 49.16 MF MPG. With-out trying that car will get over the BIG 50.
There is a reason the parts are in a box and I am not a normal grease monkey, check my blog for the location of the parts if you decide to put the injection back in.
Sorry about the long post, I'm running D-Jet on my race car.
Linda's car


P.S. Sence the carb install Linda has driven her car to the R66, RRC, and the WCC. Her MPG remains in the mid 40's

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