'68 Coronet project EFI/4 speed conversion up and running!

[rmchrgr]

Yeah, I understand what you are saying. The guy who bought my Duster didn't know much about EFI either. Which I thought was weird since the Duster project was a six part series in Car Craft. After being in Car Craft for six issues I assumed that anyone buying the car would know all about it but the buyer didn't really know much about the car. He just liked the way it looked and he was willing to pay what I as asking for it. He has called me a few times asking about various things work so I guess he is learning about it. He did tell me that he sold his race car since the Duster was faster. Even though the Duster was built as a street car.

Yeah, sounds similar to what happened with my car. At least your buyer seems to be willing to gain some understanding of what he has though it's really hard to fathom none of that registered before he bought it.

I can't imagine being in that situation myself. If I'm going to spend whatever amount of money on something I'd want to know as much as possible about it before hand. "Looks cool" is obviously what initially catches your eye but at least for me knowing and understanding what's underneath (and then deciding whatever that is will be OK or not) is the main determining factor in whether I buy something or not. Appearance is the icing on the cake when everything else makes sense.

Perhaps I did a better job than I thought of blending the EFI into the car. I didn't necessarily do it to fool people but just about anyone that looked at it had no clue it was fuel injected until I pointed it out. Maybe the fact that it wasn't completely obvious somehow fooled the first buyer into thinking it was something else. I don't know.

Even at this point in time EFI still seems to be a complete mystery to a lot of car people. There is a level of emotional attachment to carburetors and distributors that I do not understand. FI tuning concepts are all the same they're just delivered in a different format. In a way, EFI makes tuning easier to understand because of the graphical representations and finite customization possibilities. If you don't do any research you'd never know that though.

People do what they do and it's none of my business or concern. I just don't like when things get dismissed out of hand without any actual reasoning to back it up.