TPS and RPM only?

[G. M. Roberts]

You wrote: 
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>The TBI systems can be had as follows:
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>ECM $70.00 salvage / $85 rebuilt
>Throttle body $65 salvage
>harnes connectors usally free with salvage yard ecms
>fuel pump $30 salvage \ $65 new
>wire to make custom harnes $35 tops (for streached Limo harness)
>Steel tubing for fuel lines $5/five feet new
>high pressure fuel lines / connectors $5/hose salvage
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>Well, I stand corrected Dave. A little over $200 bucks. Open your 
pocket book!
>GMD
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>At 10:04 PM 3/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>>-> Hi gang.  Am I the only one who believes that the OEM FI systems
>>-> can't be beat for cost, performance, and realibility on STREET
>>-> driven, fairly STOCK engines? The last TBI conversion I did was an 
89
>>-> TBI system to an '75 engine. Cost me about $200 in salvage yard 
parts
>>-> and worked flawlessly! I'll comment futher, only if there is 
intrest.
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>> For $200 and a stock engine I'd leap on it.  For $200 and a modified
>>engine I'd even pay the Chip Gods their vigorish to blow a PROM 
that'd
>>work okay.  For $200 I'd even try it myself.
>>
>> Unfortunately salvage yard prices seem to vary widely.  A complete 
TPI,
>>manifold, sensors, wiring harness, pump/tank, ECU, and various 
doodads
>>is a cool $1000 at any salvage yard in central Arkansas.  Buying a 
wreck
>>to strip is still not an option, as the yards and insurance companies
>>have a nice little working deal on that.  Any fourth gen EFI car with 
a
>>useful system is still too new to find sitting up on blocks in 
anyone's
>>back yard yet.
>
>>
>>Is there any particular reason that aftermarket wiring harnesses cost 
so much money. It would seem pretty simple to wire one up?

George
KN4AB
40 Mtr ssb and cw
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