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    Quote Originally Posted by 1project2many View Post
    I'd like to suggest using a throttle body from a 2.8 powered vehicle for your conversion. With the large throttle bores of the 4.3 and V8 throttle body and the relatively low air demands of the engine it may be more challenging to tune small changes in throttle angle. Additionally you will need to work to get fuel delivery correct at idle and low rpm due to the amount of fuel delivered by the injectors. The 2.8 / 3.2 throttle body has much smaller bores and it already includes injectors sized appropriately for a lower horsepower engine.
    been sitting and thinking on this. I get the bore sizes and all but the 235 vs the 4.3 (262) isnt that much. I think what you are saying is that I can only reduce the injector duty cycle so much at idle but I can increase it as much as I want. right?

    my thoughts.

    I get this. maybe I'll start out with the 2.8/3.2 injectors (IF I can find them), would rather not just start buying up new injectors at $60/pop from rockauto vs $5/each at u-pull (if I can find them). Along these lines, I can use the larger throttle and just toss in the smaller injectors and then put the injector size in the tune right? I'm initially going to use the 88 1500 4.3 ecu to get it running but from what I've seen with others...I know I'll need to fine tune this thing or I will always have issues. already eyeballing the for sale sub forum for that pre-chipped ecu with chip. then get a burner or maybe that new ostrich clone? which, if I read right, once I get tune right, burn to chip and be done. but at least the ostrich will let me quickly swap out injectors and change scaling, etc (no, I have not downloaded the tuner software yet, just browsing available videos and such at this point to get up to speed).

    I'm still trying to figure out how to delete the ESC/knock sensor as well. If the legacy kit from affordable fuel injection can come with the 7747 ecu with this stuff tuned out and/or bypassed through the wiring, then it has to be sorta simple. I tend to "learn by doing" but with a bit of "pre-education" so while I'm gathering parts, I'm doing my pre-education. it just seems most of the ESC/knock sensor stuff is assumed to be pre-learned from the online stuff I am finding. people just assume you know you can bypass the ESC by twisting wires together. um, ok? which ones?

    I assume also the knock sensor stuff is like the EGR stuff and I can eliminate it in the chip itself with a tune?

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    hmm, learn something new every day I guess....

    216/235/261 chevy engine shares the same shaft depth/diameter/oil pump drive as an early landcruiser L6. I will look into other products of such type before I modify this one. so weird that "thousands" have been sold and yet this information is unknown online. I'm honestly baffled.

    somebody better download and repost these pics for me as I cant keep these from my other online storage for long lol.




    ahh pieces to a puzzle. and I cant imagine that after selling THOUSANDS of these that nobody online is chirping up that it doesnt work on their 216/235/261 as-is so I'm gonna run with it!

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    at 6 minutes and for a completely different reason as compared to valve cover issues...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQ5_50U7r8

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    Quote Originally Posted by stackz View Post
    hmm, learn something new every day I guess....

    216/235/261 chevy engine shares the same shaft depth/diameter/oil pump drive as an early landcruiser L6. I will look into other products of such type before I modify this one. so weird that "thousands" have been sold and yet this information is unknown online. I'm honestly baffled.

    somebody better download and repost these pics for me as I cant keep these from my other online storage for long lol.




    ahh pieces to a puzzle. and I cant imagine that after selling THOUSANDS of these that nobody online is chirping up that it doesnt work on their 216/235/261 as-is so I'm gonna run with it!
    I found these A-Team Performance links:

    https://swperformanceparts.com/colle...ation-blue-cap

    https://swperformanceparts.com/colle...62-194-216-235

    https://swperformanceparts.com/colle...62-194-216-235

    https://swperformanceparts.com/colle...tion-black-cap

    https://swperformanceparts.com/colle...olet-gmc-6-cyl

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