Page 2 of 2
Re: Still interested in the history of the BL injected 16-valve slant 4 engine.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 11:04 am
by Carledo
matt of the vivas wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:54 am
Carledo wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:23 pm
That's a really neat install, but I cant help thinking, if i'd done it, the plenum runners would have been 4 or 5 times as long and the throttle body would be on the front instead of at 90 degrees to the plenum.
Steve
Plus you'd fit a Vectra engine to the other end of it...
You know me so well!
Just because I often choose the cheapest and easiest route to EFi, (why reinvent the wheel) it doesn't mean I can't appreciate the other ways. Even though I don't USE the slant motor in my projects, it doesn't mean I haven't given any thought to HOW I would do it if I was perhaps asked to, or fancied a change/challenge! At heart, i'm an engineer, I can't help but try and envision a better/simpler way of doing stuff!
Steve
Hmmm….
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:57 pm
by sprint95m
I am not sure of an easy way to find the posts Steve
but a few years ago the owner did provide information of how he went about the EFI
conversion on his TR7.
I think they were actually in other folk’s threads where he was offering advice and suggestions?
Anyhow, I seem to mind he used a lot of Holden stuff (as it is easy to acquire in Australian breakers yards
or should that be wrecker’s yards?
Ian
Somehow
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:05 pm
by sprint95m
GrahamFountain wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:22 pm
I seem to remember reading somewhere that is was supposed to give something like 170-175 bhp for the production car.[flash=][/flash]
Graham
I rather doubt BL would have went that far, some like 140 to 150 would be more practical,
in terms of fuel economy at least.
There were upgrades available to give a Toledo over 120bhp but, man what fuel costs!
Ian