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what to do...ok, i dont really want to stay with a carb.
my car is a pretty mild big block duster with a viper 6 speed with .50 od and 3.73 gears. i put 6,000 miles on it from the spring to fall this year. id like to add an efi setup. i picked up a 2nd hand ez efi, it was opened but never installed. i like the fact it self learns, its got a nice throttle body, but i do understand once, it learns, its pretty much done with that feature until you make a change. i always liked the port injection design more than a tb setup.i started liking the option with MS to control the ignition too. im not sure what i want to go with.
im running a holley 3310 that stinks like hell at idle and i havent nailed down the secondary jetting yet. i started out with a cheap nos thermoquad but i couldnt get around driveability issues. i guess there was a reason it stayed nos all those years. i swore if i could get that car figured out id stick with it.
its a smogger 400 with fresh rings and a small cam, headers , performer intake. on the highway it will get 19-20 mpg, but i have yet to see more. i think the cr is holding it back. i will probably build something a little better down the road, most likely some kind of stroker, either 451 or 500, but no matter what i build i want to keep a smallish cam to work good with the 1500 rpm cruise so in the end i doubt id ever make over 500 hp. i have never played with circut boards, i have no clue about that stuff. i understand house wiring and car wiring but thats about it. im only 31 but halfway computer illiterate too.
my buddy picked up what looks like a complete lt1 intake from the trash and will give it to me, i was hoping i could use the injectors and sensors, i have a few different intakes, i can tig the injector bungs in, and i figure a home made holley main body throttle body. i think the injectors are too small, i did find some calculators online. what is a safe psi to run stock injectors at to make up for them being small? i was reading a link of a guy in europe the other day and he started with a single plae setup, but said it had awful low end and in a truck he needed more, so built a new manifold out of a dual plane and claimed it was much better. i thought that was wierd.
so is some kind of MS for me?
what is a safe fuel pressure?
where to get injector bungs, and any good links to modifying an intake for efi?
whats the thinking behind intake manifolds for the diy efi? keep in mind its a cruiser. i have performer, performer rpm, torker whick im thinking is what id start with, and an m1 single plane. the torker is more of an X shape and lower hieght which will help, the m1 is more of a highrise with curved runners similar to a victor, id like to keep that for my other car, but i could pick up another if it was ideal.
my car is a pretty mild big block duster with a viper 6 speed with .50 od and 3.73 gears. i put 6,000 miles on it from the spring to fall this year. id like to add an efi setup. i picked up a 2nd hand ez efi, it was opened but never installed. i like the fact it self learns, its got a nice throttle body, but i do understand once, it learns, its pretty much done with that feature until you make a change. i always liked the port injection design more than a tb setup.i started liking the option with MS to control the ignition too. im not sure what i want to go with.
im running a holley 3310 that stinks like hell at idle and i havent nailed down the secondary jetting yet. i started out with a cheap nos thermoquad but i couldnt get around driveability issues. i guess there was a reason it stayed nos all those years. i swore if i could get that car figured out id stick with it.
its a smogger 400 with fresh rings and a small cam, headers , performer intake. on the highway it will get 19-20 mpg, but i have yet to see more. i think the cr is holding it back. i will probably build something a little better down the road, most likely some kind of stroker, either 451 or 500, but no matter what i build i want to keep a smallish cam to work good with the 1500 rpm cruise so in the end i doubt id ever make over 500 hp. i have never played with circut boards, i have no clue about that stuff. i understand house wiring and car wiring but thats about it. im only 31 but halfway computer illiterate too.
my buddy picked up what looks like a complete lt1 intake from the trash and will give it to me, i was hoping i could use the injectors and sensors, i have a few different intakes, i can tig the injector bungs in, and i figure a home made holley main body throttle body. i think the injectors are too small, i did find some calculators online. what is a safe psi to run stock injectors at to make up for them being small? i was reading a link of a guy in europe the other day and he started with a single plae setup, but said it had awful low end and in a truck he needed more, so built a new manifold out of a dual plane and claimed it was much better. i thought that was wierd.
so is some kind of MS for me?
what is a safe fuel pressure?
where to get injector bungs, and any good links to modifying an intake for efi?
whats the thinking behind intake manifolds for the diy efi? keep in mind its a cruiser. i have performer, performer rpm, torker whick im thinking is what id start with, and an m1 single plane. the torker is more of an X shape and lower hieght which will help, the m1 is more of a highrise with curved runners similar to a victor, id like to keep that for my other car, but i could pick up another if it was ideal.
I want to put a ball valve on the fuel tank return line and see how well the engine will run just off the stock mechanical pump. Enough to get me home in a pinch? [/hijack]
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