Shawn,
Just put in a TR5 cam and add on a Lucas PI system, and stick
with a stock PI setup. EFI is for sissies. You don't actually
want to drive the car on the weekends do you? I mean such time
is better spent fiddling with the PI system trying to get the
thing to run properly... :-)
Frank Biedermann
69 TR6 PI
Adelaide
AUSTRALIA
>
> Listfolk,
>
> OK, here goes. Recent list discussions re: hotter cams and
> their poor idle
> characteristics and inherent limitations to horsepower for carbed
> street-going cars has me wondering about the
> availability/practicality of an
> EFI setup for the TR6. Specifically, it seems that EFI could
> resolve the
> low-vacuum issue of a carbed, hot-cam engine. If the ROW TR6
> can get 150hp
> with Lucas PI and a stock muffled exhaust, why should I have
> to accept a
> carbed, lumpy-idled, open-exhaust compromise?
>
> At this point I'm just looking for input, pro and con, and
> info from anyone
> who may have a similar setup. Essentially I'm looking to
> attain around or
> just over the 150hp mark, but without losing the refinement
> (!) of a stock
> TR6. Bratting around with the Monzas on is fun, but I'd rather a more
> subdued volume and to keep the torque band out of the stratosphere.
>
> Any ideas, thoughts?
>
> TIA,
> Shawn Mann
> 70 TR6
>
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