BritishV8 Forum: 340 upgrade

ex-tyke
Graham Creswick
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
(1094 posts)

Registered:
10/25/2007 11:17AM

Main British Car:
1976 MGB Ford 302

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: ex-tyke
Date: May 14, 2019 05:56PM

Good one, Rob.
The strobe effect will lull the competition to sleep

BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(5857 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: May 15, 2019 09:17AM

Huh. Not quite what I had in mind but it does have a sort of playschool appeal.

Jim

BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(5857 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: May 25, 2019 04:17PM

MGBV8
Carl Floyd
Kingsport, TN
(3824 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 11:32PM

Main British Car:
1979 MGB, Buick 215

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: MGBV8
Date: May 25, 2019 06:39PM

A Robo dizzy!

BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(5857 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: May 25, 2019 08:18PM

Yep. Mr. Roboto.

Actually, a cam sensor for the BOPR with the LS engine controller. The 3rd one I've made, all different designs. Come to the EFI tech session at the BritishV8 meet to see them all plus much more.

Jim

BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(5857 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: November 25, 2019 01:10PM

The wiring for the GM EFI is now all done. Needs some checks done and a bit of program changes, mostly to accommodate the firing order plus some general tune up and maintenance. Should be firing it up in another week or two I think.

Jim

rficalora
Rob Ficalora
Willis, TX
(2648 posts)

Registered:
10/24/2007 02:46PM

Main British Car:
'76 MGB w/CB front, Sebring rear, early metal dash Ford 302

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: rficalora
Date: November 25, 2019 09:50PM

Looking forward to the start up report Jim!

Scott68B
Scott Costanzo
Columbus, Ohio
(542 posts)

Registered:
10/25/2007 11:30AM

Main British Car:
1968 MGB GM 5.3 LS4 V8

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: Scott68B
Date: November 27, 2019 09:40PM

I'm also looking forward to that Jim!

BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(5857 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: December 07, 2019 09:31AM

Fittings for the coolant drains came in today, that's the last thing I think, before the programming work. Soon I will have no more excuses. I'm fitting 90 degree 1/8" NPT street "L"s to the block then pipe nipples, then valves. That way it will be easy and convenient to drain the block into a bucket instead of all over the bottom of the car and widely distributed on the floor.

Jim

BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(5857 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: 340 upgrade

Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: December 17, 2019 11:54AM

Rolled the car off the lift yesterday. I've been in negotiations with a couple of tuners over the last week concerning the initial tune. Issues about running boost and changing the firing order need to be resolved. One is clueless about the firing order and the other wants to do a custom OS and add tables for the boost, meaning being married to EFILive as a tuning suite instead of freeware, which I'd rather avoid. But it does have more capability. They run separate licenses for cars though so the issue is avoiding multiple license charges if, say I wanted to tune with my laptop, desktop, or android phone.

Jim

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