I have been thinking about switching to the Holley Sniper fuel injection. Tell me your opinion why I should or shouldn't switch to fuel injection. Wheather it be nostalgic, keeping it old school or other reasons.
Hang the external EFI pump in an isolated/suspended assembly like MBZ did in their larger V8 class cars and youll never hear it. Heck, you can 'grab' the whole compound 2 pump and filter scrotum from under a 500 MBZ car and have a pretty good starting point for a pusher system.I like most everything about
retrofit EFI, except for those noisy, aftermarket in-line fuel pumps. Now, they make in-tank retrofit pump kits which I think are a step in the right direction, but when they come out with body-specific reproduction fuel tanks with late-model oem style EFI fuel pumps, then sign me up.
Tanks Inc. They have fuel injection tanks for '63 -'69 Dart/Barracuda, '70 - '76 Dart/Duster, '70 - '74 Cuda/Challenger, '68 - '70 B-bodies; plus in-tank pumps, regulators, filters, etc.I like most everything about
retrofit EFI, except for those noisy, aftermarket in-line fuel pumps. Now, they make in-tank retrofit pump kits which I think are a step in the right direction, but when they come out with body-specific reproduction fuel tanks with late-model oem style EFI fuel pumps, then sign me up.
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My 750DP is circa 1970. It is old and tired,and has a lotta miles on it, but still works mighty fine. I would have to think really hard about swapping to EFI, even straight up with no costs involved.
I would, however, trade it straight up for an 850DP, no question about it !
I mostly agree with this. I KNOW that your car will probably start and run a little better, you'll have better throttle response, and you'll get better fuel mileage. But I wonder if it is really worth the expense. My 340 runs great with an Edelbrock Thunder Series carb, and it was only about $400. I think it boils down to personal choice. If you can afford the FI conversion, and the increases mentioned above are worth the cost to you then go for it. I thought about it, and decided it was not worth it for me.Other than adjusting for big changes in altitude how is efi better? Unless you drive alot of miles it will never pay for itself.
I have a fast 2.0 on my 440/505, I just bit the bullet and am having a cam ground for the fuel inj. set up. Have had trouble w/ too close of lobe separation, and never could get it quite right, (not enough vacuum).
That being said, I use to run a 800 double pumper w/ blow out protection on a fairly hot 406 sbc, and loved it, never had a problem other than keeping my foot out of it and burning a fair amount of gas. I wouldn`t run a carb w/o blow out protection!