[jhowell371]

I guess I'm just a Neanderthal but I believe properly set up carburetors will produce just as much power as FI, after all the engine is just an air pump. My Harley will start hot or cold with the vacuum slide carburetor providing excellent throttle response. It's a perfectly serviceable unit for vaporizing fuel in the proper ratio. Yes FI is more flexible but us old timers did wonders by using the rapidly disappearing art of reading plugs and swapping jets or drilling them out and playing with float levels. This was something any shade tree racer could do and did, car or motorcycle. FI was as much for tightening emissions as for performance gains. My 63 Corvair Spyder Turbo had a mechanical vacuum advancing and boost retarding distributor, no chips needed. It used a single barrel side draft carburetor bolted to the Turbo.