Carburetor on EFI engine

[lenientism]

This weekend I was offered tempting price of a Peugeot 405, It's said that the original EFI unit already replaced with carburetor for its failure producing excessive smoke.

How good carburetor will work to replace the broken EFI?

[stevieturbo]

lenientism said:

This weekend I was offered tempting price of a Peugeot 405, It's said that the original EFI unit already replaced with carburetor for its failure producing excessive smoke.

How good carburetor will work to replace the broken EFI?

Clearly the mechanic involved is an idiot.

[Steve_D]

Free would be the only price that would tempt me.

Steve

[lenientism]

It took too long time when the owner was waiting for original EFI, being informed the EFI replacement available when carburetor already installed to the car. It has decent exterior and interior besides 405 SR was one model of pugs I like at most.
So, it's not recommended to buy the car?...

[GreenV8S]

lenientism said:

So, it's not recommended to buy the car?...

If it's a car than is modern enough to have EFI then it's probably going to have emissions specified which can only be met with EFI. With carbs you'd be lucky to pass anything stricter than 'no visible smoke'. So if it has a long MOT and you're willing to throw it away afterwards it might be OK if you consider it as a scrapper on borrowed time.

[Zad]

Sounds like someone got throttle bodies and carbs mixed up...

[lenientism]

It uses carburetor get connected to intake manifold in place of EFI now, unlikely it still has throttle bodies ...

[lenientism]

GreenV8S said:

lenientism said:

So, it's not recommended to buy the car?...

If it's a car than is modern enough to have EFI then it's probably going to have emissions specified which can only be met with EFI. With carbs you'd be lucky to pass anything stricter than 'no visible smoke'. So if it has a long MOT and you're willing to throw it away afterwards it might be OK if you consider it as a scrapper on borrowed time.

Yeah the use of carbs on EFI engine is actually a regression. I think to own it only for fun, it might not give me worthy reselling value.