Bare bones kit is like $300-400... you assemble it yourself and tune with a laptop.

Josh

 

is that for just the ECM or the kit?

 

That is just for the ECM!!!

 

EFI ain't cheap

Josh

 

yea and doin it yourself is a dentside sized P.I.T.A

 

ROFL! ....maybe a crewcab dentside sized PITA?!

'was lookin at Megasquirt's gear and added it up in my head..YOW. comparable to the Holley systems as a bare bones system but alot more with the "upgrades" like a new TB instead of a junker.

 

X2. Especially for a non-standard engine. Non-standard meaning it never came from the factory with EFI.

I have a Mustang 302 EFI in my truck and it was a pure bolt-on and relatively cheap. I probably have ~ $500.00 in it.

The Street Slammer Project EFI conversion

 

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EBAY FAST complete KIT

 

I forgot these:

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If you are handy with a soldering iron, an MegaSquirt can be an amazing deal. You do not need a MS2 or a MS3 for your truck, MS1 will work fine. A MegsSquirt MS1 UnAssembled kit can be had for under $150 plus they have a sale on right now.

DIYAutoTune has a project where they went from carb to EFI on a 77 Nova step by step. They used a lot of extra parts that are not needed (additional harnesses, relay boxes, etc) so there conversion ended up being a bit pricey. The MegaSquirt is not a 'plug-in-and-go' affair... its going to take some serious reading and DIY effort but its probably one of the most customizeable and adaptable systems out there. You don't have to go full spark control, you can save some time/cash by letting the stock points dizzy control timing until you decide to convert over to a FE DuraSpark dizzy at a later date.

I have a 1974 Triumph TR6 that will be running Patton Machine ZS 175 TBI adapters and rather than a hacked up GM ECU I'm going to run batch injection controlled by a MegaSquirt MS2. I have a friend running a turbocharged Miata on an MS1 so my comfort level with the MS is pretty high.

Holley has a bunch of TBI stuff like the Avenger, HP and Commander 950 systems, Edelbrock has the ProFlow for the FE and then there are guys like Affordable-Fuel-Injection.com or a myriad of other options.

There are tons of ways to do this, depends on how much effort/time you want to put into it. A do-it-yourself job is cheap but will require lots of personal time investment and creative problem solving, a kit will be far more expensive but should (in theory) be quicker to get deployed. It all depends on what kind of time/money you want to invest.

This guy over at BinderPlanet.com did his MegaSquirt + Ford CFI (TBI) for slightly over his $300 budget in 2006. Step by step by step in glorious detail. If I go injection on the truck, this is how I'm gonna do it.