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FE Technical Forum / Re: current fuel injection options?
« on: June 01, 2024, 05:26:55 PM »
Blunt statement. I WILL NEVER USE A CARBURETOR AGAIN.
My first car started life with a 2 barrel carb. ('53 Merc). As I started hot-rodding, I converted to 3 Stromberg 97s on an Offenhauser manifold. I learned a lot.
The next car was a '54 Customline, into which I installed a rebuilt '57 312. Over a period of time I went from a single 2 barrel to 3 2s, and then a factory race manifold with a pair of 4 barrels. Then I went to a Paxton VS 59 with a pair of bonnets on the carbs.
My next car was a new '64 Custom with a 427-T engine with a pair of Holleys.
A year later I got a new Mustang with the 'K' engine, and before long I'd installed the Paxton VS59 in an enclosure which required a Holley re-done by H. Droste who worked at Triple-E but was a Holley employee.
All of the above is to say that I've had LOTS of experience with carbs. I won't bother to detail my side excursions with DCOE Webers on a couple of occasions.
I've even had experience with mechanical FI, including one that was a daily driver for a couple of years.
And then, when Holley first came out with EFI designed to retrofit on a carbureted engine, I was Tech Editor-At-Large for Super Ford Magazine. I talked to their new EFI group, asking when they'd be coming out with a package for a fit on a dual-quad application. After saying it'd be several months, at least, they admitted the idea was on the back burner. I offered to be the guinea pig in putting things together---and write about the adventure.
We used Brother Lon's '67 Mustang as the test bed. It got a 427 TP engine when only a few months old, with components sourced from the LeMans GT 40 program. We received a surplus-to-requirements upper end that included a pair of heads, a dual-plane manifold, and a pair of well-tuned 652 mechanical-secondary Holley carbs designed for the combination.
Prior to the foray into EFI-land, we'd tried about as many pairs of different configuration Holleys on that car as possible. The ultimate arrangement of EFI throttle-bodies we tested and reported on was enough better in so many ways as to persuade me that the age of carburetion was past. How long has it been since a car came from a factory with a carb? Please see my opening statement.
KS
My first car started life with a 2 barrel carb. ('53 Merc). As I started hot-rodding, I converted to 3 Stromberg 97s on an Offenhauser manifold. I learned a lot.
The next car was a '54 Customline, into which I installed a rebuilt '57 312. Over a period of time I went from a single 2 barrel to 3 2s, and then a factory race manifold with a pair of 4 barrels. Then I went to a Paxton VS 59 with a pair of bonnets on the carbs.
My next car was a new '64 Custom with a 427-T engine with a pair of Holleys.
A year later I got a new Mustang with the 'K' engine, and before long I'd installed the Paxton VS59 in an enclosure which required a Holley re-done by H. Droste who worked at Triple-E but was a Holley employee.
All of the above is to say that I've had LOTS of experience with carbs. I won't bother to detail my side excursions with DCOE Webers on a couple of occasions.
I've even had experience with mechanical FI, including one that was a daily driver for a couple of years.
And then, when Holley first came out with EFI designed to retrofit on a carbureted engine, I was Tech Editor-At-Large for Super Ford Magazine. I talked to their new EFI group, asking when they'd be coming out with a package for a fit on a dual-quad application. After saying it'd be several months, at least, they admitted the idea was on the back burner. I offered to be the guinea pig in putting things together---and write about the adventure.
We used Brother Lon's '67 Mustang as the test bed. It got a 427 TP engine when only a few months old, with components sourced from the LeMans GT 40 program. We received a surplus-to-requirements upper end that included a pair of heads, a dual-plane manifold, and a pair of well-tuned 652 mechanical-secondary Holley carbs designed for the combination.
Prior to the foray into EFI-land, we'd tried about as many pairs of different configuration Holleys on that car as possible. The ultimate arrangement of EFI throttle-bodies we tested and reported on was enough better in so many ways as to persuade me that the age of carburetion was past. How long has it been since a car came from a factory with a carb? Please see my opening statement.
KS