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Curtis Jacobson
Portland Oregon
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10/12/2007 02:16AM

Main British Car:
71 MGBGT, Buick 215

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Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: Moderator
Date: January 05, 2013 02:20PM

Thanks, Carl!

My MG was pretty well sorted by Annapolis... but your comment made me think back to really early test drives. Here's the earliest snapshot I have of it in "running" condition. (No air cleaner, hood pins, or license plate yet.) That's my momma and one of my sisters borrowing it for a hell ride. "SEPT 1991" was printed on the back of the photo by the developer.

TestDrive-Sept1991.jpg

I guess this topic has pretty much run its course. Hopefully soon I'll have something to post about plumbing, wiring, and electrical components.


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Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
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1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: January 05, 2013 04:00PM

Wait Curtis, we want to know your final solution for the trumpet lengths.

Your "racing stripe" looks really good btw. Nice touch. Very classy job all around.

Jim


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Jacques Mathieu
Alexandria, VA
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1977 MGB Small Block Ford, 331 Stroker

Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: MGB-FV8
Date: January 05, 2013 11:08PM

Curtis, I'm impressed by the cleanness and the execution of your installation; great job A+
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Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
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74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: roverman
Date: January 08, 2013 06:26PM

Curtis, regarding the photo, what about the tree ? Good to see brand loyalty. Cheers, roverman.


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Barrie Braxton

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Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: MGB567
Date: June 09, 2017 11:29PM

Curtis is there an update to this topic in particular what you ended up doing with trumpet lengths and manifold tracts?


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Curtis Jacobson
Portland Oregon
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71 MGBGT, Buick 215

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Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: Moderator
Date: June 10, 2017 01:36AM

Wow. It's been awhile already!

I ended up trimming # 1, 2, 7, and 8 to equalize volume as mentioned earlier in this thread:
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Thus, if I trim trumpets to equalize volume, the four in the middle will end up ~25mm longer than the ones for cylinders #2 and #7 and ~50mm longer than the ones for cylinders #1 and #8.

Here's a snapshot with the lid off, after trimming. I left the middle four 100mm long. You can see here that we milled the bottom side of the lid to get more clearance above them.
http://www.britishv8.org/mg/CurtisJacobson/TunedTrumpets.jpg

Re: manifold tracts... I may have knocked off a little casting flash. My heads aren't ported either. Perhaps one day I'll "flow" the whole system (or have it done.) Bigger/better exhaust headers sit higher on my to-do list.

Thank you for your interest!


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Barrie Braxton

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Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: MGB567
Date: June 10, 2017 04:15AM

thanks Curtis. I plan on showing this to my guru. I was looking at just buying from V8developments but they haven't replied just like ACT and SC-Power and V8 tuner just wasn't interested RPI has nothing in their Ebay shop either so I'll revert to DIY



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Don Kelly
Charleston, SC
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07/21/2011 05:13PM

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1980 TR7 V8 Z28 FI ECM 4.0

Re: custom plenum and fuel rail on Rover EFI manifold
Posted by: donkelly23
Date: June 11, 2017 04:57PM

Mine

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