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sword181 · Post by **sword181** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:27 pm

Has anyone here on the Thing forum converted to fuel injection? I am in the process of gathering parts and info, so that I can convert to EFI. Will keep you posted if there is any interest.

MNAirHead · Post by **MNAirHead** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:31 pm

love the idea...

Befopre doing this, are you going to convert the tranny to a different gearing.

REALLY like this idea.

sword181 · Post by **sword181** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:41 pm

Don't think I will mess with the gearing. I live in the mountains and the road climbs 1500 ft. between town and home. I am hoping for a little improvement in mileage but like the tune ability of EFI. I tow the Thing behind my RV and went to the east coast ,sea level. The Thing would barely run.Very lean. I spent and whole day in upstate New York looking for jets. Got home to 5700 ft. and had to do it all over.

MNAirHead · Post by **MNAirHead** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:58 pm

Note most sellers of turnkey T1 engines will split out the parts.. the AS21 case is the one that's wanted for resale.

sword181 · Post by **sword181** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:10 pm

Boy you really lost me with that one. Well at least there is some traffic on this forum now .I was about to give up on it.

troyp · Post by **troyp** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:19 am

check out beanboogers site if you have not already.... turbo megasquirted thing.

he also sells some stuff for the megasquirt.

I have meagasquirted by 59 bug and it is a whole lot better than i ever had my dual web 44 running and It still is not totally tuned!

Troy

troyp · Post by **troyp** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:22 am

the link if you dont have it

http://home.earthlink.net/~beanbooger/id1.html

MNAirHead · Post by **MNAirHead** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:16 am

MNAirHead wrote:Note most sellers of turnkey T1 engines will split out the parts.. the AS21 case is the one that's wanted for resale.

I'll interpret

Find someone selling a 76-79 EFI engine.. then buy their EFI parts.

vwfleh · Post by **vwfleh** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:13 pm

Does anybody know if the original 70's fuel injection would be the same as the megasquirt that is being sold now? As far as performance and ease of troubleshooting.

alsehendo · Post by **alsehendo** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:02 pm

75+ L-Jet is plug and play on 1600 if the parts are all good and all there--good luck. Orange Bently has pretty good writeup. The stock 1600 L-Jet, (like ones in any EFI car), has a non-programmable computer. If you can find a good L-Jet it would be much much cheeper option for stock and they do run very nice.

Megasquirt is made to be tunable to any car. It uses map tables values entered via computer for setting up mixture, (injector opening time), @ different rpm points. Check out EFI section a guy from Mexico sells mexi-efi parts that a lot of people use with megasquirt, like intake manifolds and throttle bodies--they are not L-Jet parts.

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/361956.jpg

An AS21 case dose not have a fuel pump hole but any case can be blocked off for use with a high pressure electric fuel pump you need for any EFI setup. You also have to run a return line to the tank. One head has a CHT sensor so you would probably have to change a head to use L-Jet

http://www.jamiehenderson.org/vw/fuel_i ... n_head.JPG