[Gmecm] 340 EFI (longish)

[Mike V]

Nice car Clair.  Please keep the pictures coming.
It sounds like you're pretty busy between that and the SRT-4 Dart.
Are there many cars of that era still around TX?

MV

At 10:39 PM 2/22/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>To: "For discussion of GM EFI hardware and software" <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
>Subject: [Gmecm] 340 EFI (longish)
>
>OK, I've managed to get off my butt and at least upload some photos of the
>EFI system on the old girl.  My web pages are horribly out of date, without
>much chance they will get updated very soon, now that there's a little guy
>(6-months old) in the house.  Still, I try to get out and tinker when I can.
>Here's the nutshell version:
>
>'72-model steel-crank 340, with PERHAPS 8.5:1 compression.  It had been
>rebuilt by the previous owner, and I didn't want to do a full rebuild and
>take more life out of this relatively rare block, so I just freshened it up
>and went with it.  Heads are smog castings with bowl porting and port
>matching, 2.02/1.60 valves.  Cam is a relatively mild Crane HMV272, also
>from the spare parts bin in the garage.  It made 260hp and 300lb-ft at the
>rear wheels when I took it to a dyno a year ago.  It managed 13" of vacuum
>at idle with the carb, which is my main worry with the chip that came with
>my kit - I need 15.