1968 Pontiac Tempest Wagon

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krisr
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1968 Pontiac Tempest Wagon

Post by krisr »

So i've just scored a win by converting my Dads wagon over to the Megasquirt dark side of the force.

The short of it, it's a 350SBC, mid 80's crappy smog cylinder heads with small ports and mild chambers (~9:1).

Most of the injection was either donated to me or was a spare from my car(s). Intake is a Procomp single plane, throttle body is a Procomp, injectors are 24lb/hr from an LS1, LS1 plastic air temp sensor in the air cleaner, Ford 5-0 TPS, tuning with a TechEdge wideband but will be replacing it with a narrowband sensor from a VZ Holden Commodore for daily closed loop duties, VX Holden Commodore IAC.

Is running stock distributor with a breakerless conversion and +12V pullup to output a perfect square wave. In case VB921 to drive an MSD coil, running alternating injection with 4 squirts. I added more ground wires to the DB37 so each sensor has a dedicated ground and twisted the pair (or all 3 when talking TPS) right the way from the DB37 to the sensor. The car has absolutely ZERO noise on any sensor and I can run accel enrichment TPSdot @ about 14%/s so throttle response is very sharp.

IMO, I think all harnesses should be setup like this but it may increase manufacturing costs slightly, but it's worth it to remove ANY sign of noise. I did the exact same mod to my MS3X'd car and sensor grounds are crystal clean.

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Test fitting everything
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Grinding, grinding...
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Test fitting again
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Out on the road!
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Sydney, Australia
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atomic6
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Re: 1968 Pontiac Tempest Wagon

Post by atomic6 »

Absolutely, awesome.

Looks great, it threw me for a loop, seeing the brakes on the wrong side, till I seen where you are from.

I totally agree on the twisting of the wires.

It is too bad it doesn't have a poncho engine in it tho.

A nice 400 RA iv, or an SD 455, that would crazy, all fuel injected, in a wagon.

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Re: 1968 Pontiac Tempest Wagon

Post by elutionsdesign »

Way cool!
Graduate of EFI University.

I build, repair, install and tune Megasquirt systems in North Dakota and beyond!
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