BBR's 83GT - turbo 302.... now with EFI!

[BBR]

And waaay ahead of schedule! Buick v. Ford is mid October?

Yep.

[BBR]

It is working much much better, but I think I am at the far end of what these 30lb injectors can deliver. My duty cycles are in the high 90's. I can prob crutch it with more fuel pressure and a little tighter on the tune, but I am currently keeping my eyes peeled for some slightly larger ones.

[BBR]

Ford sells the 2020-2021 GT500 injector very inexpensively. I ordered a set and they are taking forever to get here. Hopefully they will be here Saturday. These should give us plenty of injector headroom to split a block in half. Haha. There are a lot of tempting options for cheap knock-off injectors, but dang, I just can't bring myself to buy them.

https://www.tascaparts.com/oem-parts/ford-fuel-injector-kr3z9f593a

They are the same injectors offered thru Ford Racing under part no. M-9593-M55GT

[Russell]

What kind of balancer do you have on it? I read on the internet (so it has to be true) a good balancer can help them live a little longer.

[BBR]

It's the stock 1983 balancer!

[DanStokes]

Good deal on the injectors!

Dan

[Russell]

It's the stock 1983 balancer!

My neighbor has a 86. The crank broke and took out the stock motor. I would at least check it and make sure it has not spun.

[BBR]

Injectors are in. They seat lower in the manifold than the old style fat body injectors so the brackets need to be modified a skosh.

[BBR]

Peek-a-boo.

[Beagle]

uh... are we playing "One of these things is not like it supposed to be" or "Dramatic garage fire from fuel leak, pictures at 11" ?

[BBR]

I drilled new holes in the brackets and everything is good now! No leaks!

Set the injector parameters in Tuner Studio, and it fired right up. Whoo hoo.

[Russell]

I drilled new holes in the brackets and everything is good now! No leaks!

Set the injector parameters in Tuner Studio, and it fired right up. Whoo hoo.

Looking forward to track times!

[BBR]

Me too, but I am not sure we can get to BvF this year. Boo. We have a couple of important events that are happening that same weekend.

[BBR]

Sometimes I feel like I am playing Whack-a mole. I was chasing a no start when hot situation and discovered that my alternator voltage would climb and climb and climb while the car was running. 18v +. I was already playing with the idea of swapping to a different alternator because I doubted the ability of the stock 60 amp alternator to keep up with demand. As a check, I changed the regulator but that did not change anything. Voltage at the battery just kept creeping up up up. The 3g was an easy swap. I used the 95 amp version and it fit perfect and now voltage is very stable.

[DanStokes]

Glad that did the trick. And yes to the Wack-a-Mole thing!

Dan