Seeking a little advice on EFI project

[Ludis Langens]

"Tomas J. Sokorai Sch." wrote:
> 
> I'm a newbie to this kind of projects, but I wanted to make a nice and
> challenging embedded controller project, so I came with the idea to make my
> own efi for an old 1975 Ford F100 pickup (302 V8 engine, manual transmission)
> I want to know if my idea is too crazy or I'm oversimplifying things.
> My idea consists in the following:
> ECU board:
>         8051 compatible cpu (12MHz Atmel 89c55)
> [...]

Instead of reinventing the wheel, why not swap over the fuel injection
from an EFI 302?  You have three choices (and sub choices within those):
two injector throttle body (CFI) from an 84 or earlier car, port
injection from an 85+ car, or port injection from an 85+ truck.  The
port injection intakes are vastly different car vs truck.  The truck
intake had more height to work with.  I think it is also tuned for low
rpm torque (while the car intake is for high rpm HP).  I see plenty of
all three in the wrecking yards around here.

For your embedded controller project, make a scan tool.  (Yes, about a
decade after GM, Ford added scan tool data output to their ECMs.)

If you do decide to put stock EFI on your '75, I can give you lots of
suggestions because I'm EFI-ing a '73 F250.

-- 
Ludis Langens                               ludis (at) cruzers (dot) com
Mac, Fiero, & engine controller goodies:  http://www.cruzers.com/~ludis/


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from diy_efi, send "unsubscribe diy_efi" (without the quotes)
in the body of a message (not the subject) to majordomo at lists.diy-efi.org