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Topics => TEOTWAWKI => Topic started by: John Florida on December 10, 2012, 07:03:56 PM

Title: Dump EFI
Post by: John Florida on December 10, 2012, 07:03:56 PM

  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] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-5CE8tG4I#ws)

Title: Re: Dump EFI
Post by: Libertas on February 12, 2013, 09:35:31 PM

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

Title: Re: Dump EFI
Post by: John Florida on February 12, 2013, 09:38:37 PM

Quote from: Libertas on February 12, 2013, 09:35:31 PM

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

   Yup but how do you put it on gas engine?

Title: Re: Dump EFI
Post by: Libertas on February 12, 2013, 09:47:43 PM

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

Title: Re: Dump EFI
Post by: charlesoakwood on February 12, 2013, 10:00:53 PM

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

Title: Re: Dump EFI
Post by: Glock32 on February 12, 2013, 10:08:01 PM

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.