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Originally Posted by psychopathicdude
I have a question for "TheSilentChamber": How is converting to a completely different Fuel Injection System (megasquirt or otherwise) "easier and cheeper [sic]" than tweaking the system already in place? Me turning wrenches is free; buying new systems, adapting them to work in this application, probably a little custom fab involved.....definitely not free. maybe i'm just not following your logic; care to elaborate?
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I'm not sure if what your wanting to do is a matter of tweaking rather than an act of reconstructive surgury. Logic behind my responce was if you replace the carb with one thats not electronically controled, your looking at probably $200, and you still have a carb (I have a profound hate for carborators, but thats a differnt story). Now say you wanted to do a megasquirt system, thats $100ish, plus say $50 in parts from the junk yard- intake manifold, fuel rail, injectors, and a few sensors. Now you have a fuel injection system (primative, but still fuel injection) that is alot more tuneable than that carb, and easier to tune once you turbo. Draw through turbo has allways been a bad idea in my mind, your mixing air and fuel, adding heat and compression... if something goes wrong you have a whole charge pipe thats essentually now a pipe bomb.