[DeTomaso] Pantera EFI question from car on Hemmings.com

[boyd casey]

Here is a link to the cross ram throttle body efi with the price listed it
is $5795  WITH OUT
the ecu, fuel pump, and filter screens.

http://www.twminduction.com/ThrottleBody/ThrottleBody-FR.html

Boyd


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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:18 PM, <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:

> Those cross-ram intakes are almost always set up for Weber DCOE throttle
> spacings, and are and always have been rare & outrageously expensive. The
> sky-high price is why Ron Wade and I, and likely other guys too, built our
> own (mine are not yet finished after 15 yrs of off-and-on fiddling). They
> will fit under the Pantera engine screen but have never gotten popular and
> at the price, never will. With side-draft EFI, they would likely work OK,
> but with Webers, the blow-back pulses that carry fuel outward tends to
> sgas-oak the air cleaner bottoms, then excess fuel drips down onto the
> engine..... and the headers.... I have a new-in-box set of 48 DCOEs and
> maybe this is why I haven't moved this project further up my 'bucket-list'.
> FWIW- J Deryke