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    Caveman
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    TPI - What do I need to make this work?

    Box full of parts for what I think is an '86-'88 TPI setup, but the computer is an oddball.

    Runner with idle-air passage


    Injectors and fuel rails... upside down. Its got two oddball injectors that look different... plus the 9th inj for cold-start.


    Throttle body with idle air hole


    Intake base... needs a good cleaning.


    Distrib, sans cap. Filthy, but looks to be in decent shape. Keep it? or go with HEI?


    The REAL question... the ECM


    Junkyard scrawl: 'No fuel pump' '90 3.8 Firebird'


    The IMPORTANT piece; which of these numbers is the 'ECM number'? These numbers don't correspond to any of the 'correct' ECM numbers my web research has produced...


    So.... here's the poop:

    Can I make an '87ish TPI work with a '90 computer?

    And what do I need for it?

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    Re: TPI - What do I need to make this work?

    I did something like this years ago, I think we used a 90-92? computer on a 86 engine. Hacked together the harness, ordered the prom from the dealer (16151348 is the part number, I still have the box), the computer was a 7277 or something? (that's the last 4 digits of the service number)

    Had to make a 30 hz square wave generator to disable VATS. Because I was too cheap to get a reprogrammed chip

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    Hero BangShifter
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    Re: TPI - What do I need to make this work?

    That's not a TPI, or a '90 ecm. That's a later PCM.

    Helpful sites-

    http://www.diy-efi.org/gmecm/

    http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/

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    Re: TPI - What do I need to make this work?

    the service # is the one it appers to be 98 99 v6 fwd ecm google the service #

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