Topic: Dump EFI

[John Florida]

  The hot rodders are using modern engines and dumping Fuel Injection for carbs and coming up with ways of losing the computors.

Hot Rod Station Wagon [S6 Ep.9-1]

[Libertas]

Another way is to go mechanical FI, right?  Like an 84 Ford diesel? 

[John Florida]

Another way is to go mechanical FI, right?  Like an 84 Ford diesel? 

   Yup but how do you put it on gas engine?

[Libertas]

You don't, you stay diesel.  There are benefits to diesel, big gas tanks and better long-term storage obviously.

[charlesoakwood]

Maybe it's a question of being able to retroengineer a electronic system to a mechanical one, thereby circumventing transistor failure and creating work arounds at the same time.  Push come to TEOTWAWKI

[Glock32]

Bosch had a family of mechanical fuel injection systems for gas engines from the late 60s through mid 80s, the Bosch CIS. It was used as the basis for a later electronic injection system, CIS-E. The non-electronic one is common on VWs from the 70s through about 1984, and was also licensed out to lots of other car makers like Toyota.

I imagine a mechanically inclined sort could make these work with lots of different engines.