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Carburetor or Fuel Injection
« on: October 09, 2010, 06:23:58 AM »
ive got a suzuki sidekick. wanted to know which is better, carburetor or fuel injection. I want to get good gas mileage but i also want to be able to go two tracking and run it at the dunes.
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Offline Skyhiranger

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Re: Carburetor or Fuel Injection
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2010, 07:05:48 AM »
Fuel injection all the way.
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Re: Carburetor or Fuel Injection
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2010, 09:50:43 AM »
X2 If you can get all the parts, it's well worth the investment
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Re: Carburetor or Fuel Injection
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2010, 02:00:33 AM »
Are you looking to swap the engine to a Samurai?  If not the Sidekick should already have fuel injection.  Unless it's a rare 89.
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Re: Carburetor or Fuel Injection
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2010, 11:49:57 AM »
Are you looking to swap the engine to a Samurai?  If not the Sidekick should already have fuel injection.  Unless it's a rare 89.

Well yeah, but the 16-valve MPI is far better than the 8-valve TBI.
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Re: Carburetor or Fuel Injection
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2010, 12:02:21 PM »
Well yeah, but the 16-valve MPI is far better than the 8-valve TBI.

True, the extra hp is nice.  But I don't think it is really worth swapping them.
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