Dear Team-Buick Members,
Help! I've been browsing through my TA-Performance catalog again!
Seriously, one lead provided by a member of the "Team Buick Brotherhood" was to look into Fuel-Injection as a well to boost the power of the 300 cid V-8 in my 65 Special. This lead me to investigate the After-market Electronic Fuel-Injection kits that can be found for a wide-variety of classic Buick engines (yes, even the 300.)
These units are vary from expensive to very-expensive and installation varies from "it t'aint easy" to "if you have to ask how - you'll never make it". Still, the technology seems very interesting and if you have experience with a modern car, you know it does wonders for things like gas mileage.
Intrigued, I decided to crunch a few numbers based on the TA-Performance intake manifold and EFI package: http://www.taperformance.com/products.asp?cat=369. It seems to me that at least the TA-Performance version would pay for itself in terms of fuel cost savings in a few years (depending on the engine, number of miles driven a year, and so on.)
Since I thought it might be useful to the "brotherhood," I created a blog entry with the details of my calculations and attached to that two Excel spreadsheets so that you'all can slice and dice the numbers for yourself http://www.teambuick.com/forums/blog.php?b=135.
All this theory is fine and good . . . but it don't get anything actually under the hood. So I cannot help but ask the Team Buick Brotherhood: what are people's experiences with After-market Electronic Fuel Injection? Which models have folks installed and what are their experiences? How difficult was the installation? How does the car behave once EFI is installed? Can you truly get a substantial benefit of modern technology in our beloved classic Buick engines?
Inquiring minds want to know! :bgrin:
Thanks for any and all pearls of wisdom!
Cheers, Edouard
Help! I've been browsing through my TA-Performance catalog again!
Seriously, one lead provided by a member of the "Team Buick Brotherhood" was to look into Fuel-Injection as a well to boost the power of the 300 cid V-8 in my 65 Special. This lead me to investigate the After-market Electronic Fuel-Injection kits that can be found for a wide-variety of classic Buick engines (yes, even the 300.)
These units are vary from expensive to very-expensive and installation varies from "it t'aint easy" to "if you have to ask how - you'll never make it". Still, the technology seems very interesting and if you have experience with a modern car, you know it does wonders for things like gas mileage.
Intrigued, I decided to crunch a few numbers based on the TA-Performance intake manifold and EFI package: http://www.taperformance.com/products.asp?cat=369. It seems to me that at least the TA-Performance version would pay for itself in terms of fuel cost savings in a few years (depending on the engine, number of miles driven a year, and so on.)
Since I thought it might be useful to the "brotherhood," I created a blog entry with the details of my calculations and attached to that two Excel spreadsheets so that you'all can slice and dice the numbers for yourself http://www.teambuick.com/forums/blog.php?b=135.
All this theory is fine and good . . . but it don't get anything actually under the hood. So I cannot help but ask the Team Buick Brotherhood: what are people's experiences with After-market Electronic Fuel Injection? Which models have folks installed and what are their experiences? How difficult was the installation? How does the car behave once EFI is installed? Can you truly get a substantial benefit of modern technology in our beloved classic Buick engines?
Inquiring minds want to know! :bgrin:
Thanks for any and all pearls of wisdom!
Cheers, Edouard