Re: re:AMC modifying

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: Wow! Just had a customer come in today with a '57 Tbird Holley 1434 
system, looking for an overhaul kit today. (pretty wild looking 4 bbl tbi 
looking thing. I thought for sure it was '80s Tbird Pro-Jection!)


From: farna@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: re:AMC modifying
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On August 22, 2005 andrew hay wrote:

> actually -- they did have rochester injection on the '57 327, and
> overdrives all through the '60s behind 3sp 287s and 290s at least.
> that's just nits though.
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Andrew Hay

Now Andrew, that's a big slip for you!! Yes on the manual OD trannys (even 
behind the 327 -- T-89 w/BW OD), but ROCHESTER injection? The 57 got BENDIX 
electronic fuel injection, not Rochester Mechanical!! And for the record, 
there were no production cars shipped with EFI. It just wasn't reliable 
under to varied conditions. Within a certain range of parameters it worked 
fine, but get out side of that range and it got real tempermental. To hot or 
to cold and it may not start! As far as can be determined, only 5-6 cars 
were built with EFI, and none left the factory except for early test cars 
sent out where a few journalists could drive them, most notably  Daytona 
Beach during Speed Week, but none of the cars were officially run. None were 
actually sold though. For the record, the Rochester MFI wasn't very reliable 
except under a narrow range of conditions either. The Bendix used "new 
fangled" transistors. I can't imagine a single layer board with enough 
discrete circuits on it !
 (no ICS at all) that would actually do the job of controlling EFI 
correctly, to modrn standards. But that's what Bendix was working with. I 

don't know for sure, but might have been a vacuum tube or two in there!