But Carl,
Fuel injection and a wide-band Oxygen sensor is the way to go 1/4 mile racing. Your computer is adjusting mixture thousands of times in one second. You can even treat each cylinder as an engine and set the mixture for each individual cylinder based on exhaust temp. The NHRA Pro Stock Class drag racers would love to get rid of Carburetors but NHRA wont budge. Who knows why, since all cars since the 80s have all been injected.
You will never have BLACK SMOKE behind you when you punch it. Just ask all of the guys behind me on the 07 Power Tour. When the 440 6-Pack guys jumped on it, I saw clouds of smoke.
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