Jon,
I worked with them a little bit on the kits...Mainly a Mopar Perf
development project. They (
opar engineering) went with the Edelbrock 4bbl TB...thats where I was hoping
they would believe the CFD (and the other factory engineers) and use an F&B
52x55mm...Oh well. They said: "Performance oriented builders dont want the
stigma of 2 bls...) I guess those Viper drivers are pretty tough to deal
with that... The hiss of 4bbls with big boundry layers is better?? We tole
em we could fix em up with 6bbls, but they were not interested (yet)...
Bruce
6bbls of EFI fun
----- Original Message -----
From: <jon@dakota-truck.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: DML: EFI for the older cras
>
> Eric Hufstedler <mopar@ehuffy.com> wrote:
>
> : Someone asked me to post when Mopar Action had an article on EFI
> : for the older cars.
>
> : The Oct 2006 has some more information.
>
> : Unfortunately (for me anyway) it's about how to put a magnum engine
> : in with EFI. Since I just had my LA engine rebuilt, I really
> : wanted a retrofit article.
>
>
> I figured that's probably what they were going to do. Oh well.
> The article was interesting, what I skimmed through anyway. It
> appears that they actually got together with Mopar Performance (?)
> - they kept referring to them as "the factory" to put together a
> wiring harness and three different computers for the 360. There
> wasn't much info there, didn't seem all that helpful overall. For
> example, in one part of the article they say that reprogramming a
> stock computer is "extremely difficult and time-consuming, even
> for trained factory electronic and computer engineers", and once
> its done, you don't want to mess with it; they say that for all
> practical purposes, you can't change it. Their "solution" is to
> ask the factory to come up with three different computers, one
> for a stock 360, another for a mild version and another for the
> crate motor. The first problem with this is that there are several
> outfits out there who will re-program the factory computer, as
> we here on the DML have known for years, so they are wrong on that
> count, and also having three different computers isn't much of
> a solution - instead of being pigeonholed into one tune, now you
> have the choice of three? What happens if your engine doesn't
> match one of the three? Plus, I couldn't see in the article any
> information about where you actually can buy any of this stuff.
> Oh well... Don't get me wrong, having another EFI option is a
> good thing, and I'm sure it would be just the ticket for a great
> number of vehicles. I might consider it if it is cheap enough, but
> for my next EFI conversion, I am still leaning towards the MegaSquirt
> route. The whole article just sort've gave off a weird vibe -
> hard to describe. I think maybe because they are so personally
> invested in the concept, they aren't presenting as objective a
> view as perhaps they should. Of course, it doesn't help that
> its done in the standard "read two sentences on this page, story
> continued in the middle of the magazine, read another paragraph,
> story continued further back, etc." Its really annoying - and
> one of my pet peeves. :-)
>
> Oh, and I know there are a number of people on the list who
> will enjoy this caption that appeared under one of the pics in
> this article: "One really nice feature of all Magnum cylinder
> heads ... are these cool tap-in spark plug heat shields." :-)
>
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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