BLSTIC wrote:It's not that carby turbo is particularly difficult, it's that it's a lot more *specific* and needs to be adjusted after every change.
I reckon it's difficult for your average punter, simply because a carby turbo setup gives you no data to tune with, and making adjustments is a complex task involving changing and/or modifying physical components. I spent months just trying to build and graph a distributor that would retard timing on boost properly. You need expertise, patience and time. Because I have limited amounts of all three, my carby setup went in the bin... well, sold to a new home.
For me, going EFI was the more expensive route, but easily justified by improvements in power, reliability and driveability - and that's with a shitty MicroTech that requires manual tuning. I'm looking forward to upgrading to a Haltech or Adaptronic for the self-learning function.
EFI isn't the right answer for everyone though, and that's fair enough.