The controversy between carburetors and EFI has always been about complexity and price. Carburetors are simple—EFI is not. Carburetors are cheap—or at least cheaper than EFI. Those points have not ...

We're going to give you three words that strike fear into the hearts of many hot rodders, even more so than "wiring" or "upholstery." Electronic fuel injection. There, we said it! But the simple fact ...

The carburetor was invented well over a century ago and served the internal combustion engine well. Later, electronic control was married to carburetors with so-so results. Okay, the results were ...

Just about every new vehicle is fuel-injected. (The last carbureted vehicles came off the assembly line in 1990.) Although they’re more expensive to service than carburetors were, fuel injection ...

Mike has been an automotive writer since 2007. He’s also the author of a 32,000+ word ebook on the inner workings of cars, suspensions, and engines, with 2 chapters on quick and easy performance ...

For the casual enthusiast, the romance of lifting the hood of your project car and swapping that old-fashioned carburetor for high-tech electronic fuel injection (EFI) was often shattered by the ...

The Cross-Fire engine used by GM in the early 1980s didn't get the best reputation. Here's why some critics have given it the ...

Electronic fuel injection revolutionized the auto industry in the 1980s. It came to replace the carburetor in the task of sending fuel to the engine's cylinders but it does much more: it controls ...

Electronic fuel injection is older than you think, the earliest example being the failed Bendix Electrojector system from 1957. Bosch bought the rights to the Eletrojector system and developed it into ...

The 1957 Corvette did something quietly radical: it took fuel injection out of the lab and the racetrack and put it on a ...