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tbi on a 360?

I would go Howell.

JohnN has one and really seems to like it. They are a great company and it seems a pretty painless way to get injection.

Carl
 
CBRogers said:
I would go Howell.

JohnN has one and really seems to like it. They are a great company and it seems a pretty painless way to get injection.

Carl
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Yep, I've got it and would do it again. I wasted a lot of dollars on carbs that were supposed to be good. I should have done the TBI first.
 
There are some pretty good carbs out there but i think the main question you need to ask yourself is: What are you going to be doing with your Jeep? If you plan on doing a lot of off-roading with it and especially some more difficult to extreme stuff, carbs just don't cut it!

If you are doing some light off-roading you can probably get a way with a good reliable carburetor.
 
probably light to moderate wheeling. but i like the efficiency and reliability of FI over carb.
 
In my opinion Howell and the company are CRAP. I put a Howell on my 401. It never would run right. No low end, cough and puke worse than a carb. When they would burn a new chip to try to correct their problem they would charge you. 1st $40 then $60 then $80, after three try's and still not right I took it off and sent it back. I still use the old reliable motorcraft 2 bbl. If you know how to set them they work great. I run Moab all the time.
It's up to you you asked for opinions.
 
Wyoming said:
It's up to you you asked for opinions.
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hey no problem, i did ask. i am not married to any one philosophy yet. i could still keep it carbed. the brain is working trying to gather info right now.

i am a few months from dropping th engine in the jeep.

i had heard that ther is a "budget" way of doing it with junkyard parts. anyone heard of this?

thanx for the replies.
 
And that's why you're always better off putting on a programmable EFI system instead of a chip style ECU. If you have a stock motor, it's not as particular as if you have a cam/headers/heads/etc. The Holley Commander 950 is a pretty good inexpensive system for the money too. It at least can be changed by you instead of sending the chip out to be burned.
 
mysunnshine said:
And that's why you're always better off putting on a programmable EFI system instead of a chip style ECU. If you have a stock motor, it's not as particular as if you have a cam/headers/heads/etc. The Holley Commander 950 is a pretty good inexpensive system for the money too. It at least can be changed by you instead of sending the chip out to be burned.
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Now you're getting into "closed loop" vs. "open loop" systems. The Howell is a closed loop system, it programs itself from the feedback it receives from it's sensors. I prefer this because it makes it's own changes as you go. It may not be rocket science (sorry Carl), but I don't want to deal with my own programing. Of course, a lot of this depends on them burning a chip that's fairly on target to start with.
 
For the budget method www.bustedjeep.com has a good write up. It is geared to the 258 but the same concepts apply. Both binderbulletin.org and justih.org have some very good forums geared toward TBI and given though they are IH guys they are very helpful to the jeeper crowd.
If you do it right you could get away with about 500 to 600 in the system and have computer controlled timing that Howell does not offer or did not at the time I did mine.
I when the junkyard route on mine and have been very pleased.
 
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