Club Cobra - Is multiport injection worth the extra cost??

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Originally Posted by twobjshelbys (Post 1501425)

On one hand you criticize the info of the tradeoffs of one EFI system vs the other based on price, yet you don't suggest that the OP simply spend $300 to get his carbs adjusted properly instead of ditching it for a 1500 EFI system that will result in the same operation (given his conditions)???

The question was on the various types of EFI systems. Objection your honor, asked and answered.

Carbs are a waste of time and money unless you are using it for a specific racing purpose or for originality.

You adjust it today, and tomorrow you have to adjust it again if you want peak performance. It will in no way shape or form result in the same operational aspects.

Yes, it was on EFI systems based on price/performance. No mention of a carb was suggested, so there was no reason to waste time explaining.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I bought my cobra to take me back to driving as I remembered it in the sixties. Cars we’re cantankerous. They belched, farted, and we’re sometimes unreliable and that’s what I wanted my cobra to be.
If I wanted a car that drove like, and was as reliable as a Honda, I wouldn’t have bought a cobra.
Regarding my carbed engine, I set the tune on my carb three years ago when I set up the engine and haven’t had to touch it since then. It has no choke so after starting it can take a few minutes to warm up during the winter before driving off.
Summer starts are no problem. Never have a driving concern. Always performs like the loud, snorting, stinky powerhouse that I love.
Having a fuel injected engine may be more drivable than their carbed equivalents, but that’s not how I want my car to act. I have a 760Hp 2020 Shelby GT 500 and my cobra is much more fun to drive. Total involvement. My wife drives the GT 500 to work. She won’t even think about driving the cobra.
So, if you want originality, stick with the carb.

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Originally Posted by twobjshelbys (Post 1501836)

I grew up on a farm in South Dakota. After a day with grease and dirt up to our elbows and beyond we'd go to the gas tank and wash the grease off with the leaded gas. It evaporated in seconds.

We used to wash the underside of the radial engine WWII airplanes with high test aviation fuel. Even on a relatively warm day your hand would be freezing!