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Old Sep 17, 2008 | 10:22 PM
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whats the difference between carbed and fuel injection? fuel injection ?im just not sure and how do i know if my engine is carbed?

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Old Sep 17, 2008 | 11:36 PM
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well we would be able to tell u if ur car was Carb or Fuel Injection if you told us what u have and secondly here is the difference....

Fuel injection is a system for mixing fuel with air in an internal combustion engine. It has become the primary system used in automotive engines, having almost completely replaced carburetors in the late 1980s.

A fuel injection system is designed and calibrated specifically for the type(s) of fuel it will handle: gasoline (petrol), Autogas (LPG, also known as propane), ethanol, methanol, methane (natural gas), hydrogen or diesel. The majority of fuel injection systems are for gasoline or diesel applications. With the advent of electronic fuel injection (EFI), the diesel and gasoline hardware has become similar. EFI's programmable firmware has permitted common hardware to be used with multiple different fuels. For gasoline engines, carburetors were the predominant method to meter fuel before the widespread use of fuel injection. However, a wide variety of injection systems have existed since the earliest usage of the internal combustion engine.

The primary functional difference between carburetors and fuel injection is that fuel injection atomizes the fuel by forcibly pumping it through a small nozzle under high pressure, while a carburetor relies on low pressure created by intake air rushing through it to add the fuel to the airstream.

The fuel injector is only a nozzle and a valve: the power to inject the fuel comes from farther back in the fuel supply, from a pump or a pressure container.
Old Sep 18, 2008 | 09:56 AM
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What year is your car?
Old Sep 18, 2008 | 12:34 PM
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i have a 1990 lx mustang 4 cylinder
Old Sep 18, 2008 | 02:18 PM
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I think they started fuel injection in 1986 on the mustangs.
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