Reply to "Stroker Motor Questions by Dave F #5972"

Derek,

As of this time there are no fuel injection manifolds you can buy and bolt onto a 351C that would allow you to swap to an EEC-IV system, however there are ways around this dilemma.

Two Pantera owners, Thomas Tornblom of Sweden and Jim Murch of northern California have modified the lower half of a 351W fuel injection manifold from Trick Flow allowing it to mate with the Cleveland engine & heads. Thomas' conversion was on an Australian motor with 2V style heads, Jim's conversion was on a Cleveland with 4V heads. The manifold modifications were extensive and expensive. But the results are BITCHEN.

Thomas has a web site were he details the conversion, its good reading:

http://www.detomaso.nu/~thomast/efi/

Jim's conversion has caught the attention of Trick Flow, and they are promising a fuel injection manifold for the 351C, with 2V size ports. The manifold will most likely be introduced at the same time they introduce the 351C 2V heads they are working on to compete with the new Edelbrock heads.

Quality Roadsters sells complete systems or components that allow a mass air flow fuel injection system to be installed in such a way that it looks like a carbureted system. The system installs on single plane intakes modified to allow installation of fuel injectors. The cool factor of this system is that it maintains the "look" of the stock motor, so its very "stealthy"!

The fuel injection conversion business has grown so big for Quality Roadsters, that they have split it off as a separate company called Mass Flo EFI:

http://www.mass-floefi.com/

CHP and others sell a "power elbow" that bolts on the carburetor mounting pad of a single plane intake manifold. Like the Quality roadsters system, the manifold must be modified to allow the installation of fuel injectors. This system differs from the Quality Roadsters approach in that it does not require a proprietary throttle body or MAF sensor, it employs the standard throttle bodies & MAF sensors designed for the 5.0 liter Ford Mustang motor.

All of these EEC-IV conversions require the use of a "TFI" style distributor. The usual donor is the distributor from a fuel injected 460 cubic inch motor from a Ford pick up truck. That particular distributor employs a remote TFI module, so some folks modify other Ford distributors with integral modules to fit the 351C.

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