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I have been surprised at the recent flurry of
carb postings. I assumed that everyone was doing EFI. having
experienced total electrical failure in march on a trip to the Bahamas I was
thinking a lot about that Neanderthal carb bolted under my O320 and the
magnetos, all unaware of what was going on in the radio, GPS, and nav
lights departments. the reality is that you don't want a
reserve battery to get you to the ground safely, you want to get to the Bahamas
and back and THEN look into what's wrong.
my questions are "how much power/performance is
lost with a carb, and which carbs can do manual mixture?". is it stupid to
ask if the Lycoming carb could run a 13B? someone mentioned Harley
carbs having a good history of rough service. what about
marvel/schebler? is this question heresy? :-) isn't efi a bit of
overkill for an engine that basically runs at 100% power, 75% power and
idle? scanning thru the archives I see a lot of postings regarding
mixture, mapping, abrupt failures and such. does this complexity buy us
5%, 20%? the question of turbo-charging seems to beg similar line of
questioning. kevin
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