Thread: question for rspears

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No, because I was a neophyte to EFI I went with Edelbrock's package which is all inclusive - everything you need to go from bare heads up. Edelbrock has both their ProFlow XT which has the tunnel ram/throttle body look, or their ProFlo2 which mimics the 4-barrel look and still uses their hand-held programmer. There are a bunch of throttle body systems out there that look like a 4-barrel, some using throttle body injection, and some using multi-port injection with fuel rails and one injector per cylinder. You might look at the Megasquirt systems - they are geared to the DIY approach, and there may be a way of using your dual quad manifold with their ECU - problem is you're going to boost your costs quite a bit. The throttle body is not cheap, plus you're going to have to have programming to accept dual inputs. Maybe only one active throttle body, but a second "shell" for looks? Not sure it's worth the hassle. FAST has a system, as does Holley - there are more every day, it seems.

For what it's worth, my next EFI will either be an OEM ECU modified to allow open programming, or something like a Megasquirt - they even have a you-solder kit that really drops the costs, and the mystery of EFI is not so much of an issue for me after playing with the Edelbrock system so much.