[Steve M]

I've got a 2.0 with stock FI, I went FROM carbs to FI. Some people find it easier to deal with carbs, I dont even know how to adjust a carb.
Once I got it running right, FI is a pleasure to have. Granted it did have it's teething problems in the beginning and there were times when the car wouldnt start because a sensor had become disconnected. But since I now know what the cause was, if I ever have trouble starting the car I know exactly where to look. However if your cam is THAT much different from stock then you should stick with carbs. I have a slightly hotter cam on my car and had head work done on it. The FI works just fine and I can adjust the manifold pressure sensor. I've heard claims of 125 horses or more with dual carbs. People say they get more HP out of carbs. I've done 0-60 in around 6 seconds with my car had it up to 120 and the car still had steam. It was expensive for me to get back to FI but that was because I chose to buy alot of brand NEW components and not used. My reasoning to go back to FI was this.
I dont know how to adjust a carb nor do I even care because about 99.9% of autos are FI today. I also have a Volvo 240 and I feel confident in working on that cars FI from the knowledge I've gained rebuilding mine.
However all bets will probably be off if I ever decide to go with a 6 converstion, on the other hand of that I would strongly consider some sort of FI for that type of thing as well.
The 914 came with FI from the factory and I didnt want to have to deal with guess work in adjustment, I just wanted to pick up a manual and fix it.
I get a kick when I tell people the car is a 1973 AND it has FI, after I've spanked a rice burner.

In one case, the vacum hoses, caused me no end of trouble. It literally took me 2 years to figure that out. On the other hand of that argument I was rebuilding not adjusting at that point. You probably want to stick with carb if your cams are that wild. I dont know cams to the extent of the numbers. I know cams to the extent of their function and their degrees. When I had the engine rebuilt I told them just give me whatever would give me the best performance and works best with FI.
If you want to know more about what I did to my engine you can do a search on my name. I've spoken plenty of times about how much I love my engine and FI and blah blah blah.



[This message has been edited by Steve M (edited 09-29-2000).]

[This message has been edited by Steve M (edited 09-29-2000).]