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Old Oct 29, 2009 | 11:27 PM
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i need some EFI help

im in desperate need of some help...
im working on a rockcrawler with an old school 390......ineed fuel injection

im tryin to find something that is super simple to work on and uses mostly over the counter parts......

the 454 chebby tbi has been suggested ....anyone have experiance with this setup.........

mostly concerned with low end grunt not high rev

here is what its going in
 
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 12:19 AM
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Check out the current Hot Rod mag. $1800 system adjusts itself.

Oh, I know you want to spend months cobbing together a system that will work only half the time, but think about the possibility of driving the truck, instead of working on it.....
 
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 05:36 AM
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Do you need a V8 for rock crawling? I see the engine in the photo, but why not look at a FI 300 6.

I aint into rock crawling but why do you need a big V8 engine, I thought crawling was more about getting over things slowly, where gearing would come more into play.



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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 10:16 AM
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You might want to check out the following weblink:

http://www.fuelairspark.com
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Fuel, Air, Spark, Technology (FAST) won the 2009 Hot Rods Best new product award for developing a do-it-yourself EFI. What I have heard from other hot rodders is that this system works great.
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by jowilker
Do you need a V8 for rock crawling? I see the engine in the photo, but why not look at a FI 300 6.

I aint into rock crawling but why do you need a big V8 engine, I thought crawling was more about getting over things slowly, where gearing would come more into play.



John


do you really have to ask why i would use a v8......

really though......ive run the 300 before.....great low end torque...but no guts when i needed a dose od HP.
 
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 04:26 AM
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I'm a huge FE fan, and was not trying to be funny. You can grab a factory FI from a 96 & back truck, but any FI for the FE will have to be made up custom and ?? cost. I also understand the odd angles requires FI.

That was the big reason for my post. I was under the assumption that for rock crawling short burst of torque was what was needed.



John
 
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Old Nov 1, 2009 | 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Lance Hogan
You might want to check out the following weblink:

http://www.fuelairspark.com
<O</O
Fuel, Air, Spark, Technology (FAST) won the 2009 Hot Rods Best new product award for developing a do-it-yourself EFI. What I have heard from other hot rodders is that this system works great.
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Nice stuff, thanks for the link.
 
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