Re: [AMC-List] Fuel Injecting the big dogs

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mark Price wrote:

> Just ask Dino over on the Strokers site how well his XJ Jeep runs! It's a mid nineties Export model. Which means no O2 sensor or mass air flow, It's always in "open loop". There were quite a few "open loop" cars out there that run fine. The first TPI kits ran "open loop" too.
> Closed loop is better, especially for emissions, but "open loop" system can be tuned to work amazingly well. Call it "old school" EFI.

That's really good news -- I'd never heard of anyone running
open-loop *FI successfully. Even carbs are not exactly "open
loop"; fuel flow is proportional to airflow plus and minus. But I
guess if you get the right initial settings dialed in it should
work pretty well.





> --
> Mark Price
> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> Morgantown, WV
> 
> 
> ---- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Swygert, Francis G MSgt 436 CES/CECM wrote:
> > 
> > > I haven't seen one -- I don't think it's in stores yet, but check this
> > > out:
> > > http://www.retrotekspeed.com/
> > 
> > That's totally great!!!!
> > 
> > I'll wait to see how it behaves without the other useful feedback
> > (air mass and flow, temperature, etc) but I don't see how it
> > could be worse than a carb, and if done right, 10X better.
> > 
> > But I want a 300cfm 2bbl version! Boo hoo!
> > 
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