Carburetors vs Electronic Fuel Injection – What’s Best For Your Engine?What are the differences between carburetors, port injection, and direct injection? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
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Why do some cars use both port & direct fuel injection? This video deep dives into the various popular forms of fuel injection.Watch the video from Engineering Explained for more info:
We’ll discuss the tuning flexibility of port injection, the advantages of the cooling effects of in-cylinder direct injection, as well as how dual injectors (both port & direct) can offer the benefits of both worlds, and help keep carbon deposits off of intake valves.
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The carburetor and fuel injection are the systems that feed fuel and air into the engine cylinders.In carbureted systems the fuel gets drawn from the tank, while in a Fuel Injected system it depends on a fuel pump installed inside the tank for a fine-grained control over fuel flow.
