Re: [DMCForum] Re: Did Someone Piss In Marc's Cornflakes? (Marc)
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Re: [DMCForum] Re: Did Someone Piss In Marc's Cornflakes? (Marc)



Hmm..  It is a rare occasion I need to pop the intake
off of any of my cars.  Both the FI ones, and
Carburetor ones..

But, I can say.. I used to have a 79 camaro.  Went
through carburators all the time.  Needed to rebuild
them or replace them all the time, and they were NOT
cheap.  I remember almost getting killed when the car
stalled due to a faulty accelerator pump diaphragm.

On the 66 mustang, the carb needs a rebuild every
other year, if not every year.  To get the car to run
right, I had to have the thing drilled to make the car
run a little rich.  The plugs foul about every 10K
miles, even with the electronic replacement for the
crappy "points". Now my gas mileage is even worse than
before, and I am probably killing lots of dolphins or
something.

My 1990 SHO had 210K miles on it.  Sure, I had to
replace the crank position sensor once, and a few O2
sensors got changed over the years, but the spark
plugs were changed at 150K miles (just because...
they still ran fine anyway), and got consistently good
gas mileage...   I did take the intake off of it once
to clean it, and the EFI had no impact on the job.

Back to the Delo.. 

I am no fan of the stock FI setup.  But, the EFI setup
that someone on the DML did looked great.  He even
made a custom intake that looked very easy to remove
if need be.  Was it the best solution?  I dont know..
But maybe Martin can suggest a European "donor" EFI
intake that would work well on our DeLoreans?  Maybe
from the 3.0L Eagle?


--- content22207 <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<SNIP>
>
> Re: carburetion -- you overlooked the single biggest
> benefit: ease of
> access. I can pop my DeLo's intake manifold off in
> less than 2
> minutes. Don't even need to do that to replace my
> spark plug wires.
> The passenger valve cover is leaking on my new
> truck, and is totally
> covered up by the air plenum. Am not looking forward
> to removing all
> that crap just to replace one piece of rubber. The
> carb is one of the
> smallest components on my 460's. Sits unobtrusively
> in the middle of
> the intake manifold, not in the way of anything. I
> have better things
> to do than spend an entire weekend disassembling an
> engine just to
> replace plug wires or valve cover gaskets.
<SNIP>


           
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