I am in the process of developing a Megasquirt FI system for my '80 Mustang with a 429. I have opportunity to acquire an '89 Multi-port 460 intake manifold-complete. If this would fit It would eliminate a lot of work.
My heads are early 70's (D??? - something). I have been told that the FI heads are different and the manifold will not fit. When I look at Blue Thunder and other places I find no differentiation (except CJ - Boss).
Does anyone have any input - advice?
THANX
Dave

The intake and exhaust ports on the fuelie heads / intake have been raised a bunch vs the earlier versions. The intake is not compatable with the passenger car heads with out mods.

You will need to convert a victor to efi. The stock fuelie intake does not flow worth a tinkers damn.




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Thanks Scotty
Not what I wanted to hear but what I needed to hear
seems like those are usually opposites
Dave

 

the lower efi intake LOOKS like it would flow pretty well. Is that not the case? Is it just the upper that doesn't flow well? EDIT: When I say that it looks like it would be a decent intake, I mean that it appears to me that it's about equal to a Performer intake. The runners look to be maybe slightly larger than a performer, but certainly not a Stealth or Performer RPM.

 

Only reason to use that intake is that it is set up for injection, but as said is not a bolt up for early heads. In this case be better to convert a Torker II, Victor, TFS, or tunnel ram. For a DOVE/D3VE head I'd go with the TFS intake, drill it, and add the injector bungs.

Tunnel ram can be a neat option if you have a CJ port head, and a more serious engine, but runners are really steep for adding the injector bungs - ask me how I know :roll:

Steve

 

Older vs Fuel Injection Heads

Thanx for the good info
Flow characteristics etc aside - what would happen when I dropped a FI Manifold between the D2VE heads on my 429 ?
If I knew what the mods to make it fit would be I may want to go that route instead of the bungs - Fuel Rail etc would work = easy
I am not looking for ultimate performance only drivability.
THANX
Dave :?:

 

D2VE heads? If you're set on EFI, may as well swap to the F3 EFI heads as well. If you use the upper part of the factory EFI, it'll be well above the roof line.

 

I wish you had not mentioned the height problem

Now I can't get the picture of those twin TB bores Facing into the wind above the roof line out of my mind :shock:

Now I will have to try it!

Dave

 

Re: Older vs Fuel Injection Heads

Thanx for the good info
Flow characteristics etc aside - what would happen when I dropped a FI Manifold between the D2VE heads on my 429 ?
If I knew what the mods to make it fit would be I may want to go that route instead of the bungs - Fuel Rail etc would work = easy
I am not looking for ultimate performance only drivability.
THANX
Dave :?:

DO NOT USE D2VE HEADS. ANY heads are better than those, whether they are D3VEs, D0VEs (what I have) or fuelie heads.
If they have big round open chambers, DON'T USE THEM. I learned the hard way. They suck. other people will fill you in.

 

After Scott's response (?) I went home cleaned up the casting numbers, chalked them and took a picture

Looks like D2OE - A B

This motor is suposed to be out of a '72 LTD Wgn

Dave

 

Older vs Fuel Injection Heads

I posted the casting numbers off my heads hoping I would get some feedback :?
Does anyone out there have any experience with D2OE - A B heads

THANX
Dave