[DeTomaso] MSD fuel injection

[Justin Greisberg]

I still am the voice of reason in the EFI discussions.  I have been working with my Retrotek EFI system for 4+ years now.  Still doesnt run as well as my carb'd engines.  I am making progress, and I hope that one day I will have a really nice setup.  But I would never do it on another vintage car.  And there is nothing plug and play about it.  I still have not achieved satisfaction in cranking, cold engine running, and idle.  i have not yet really worked on acceleration much at all.  With a chassis dyno and an EFI system and some time, it is possible to really do some nice stuff.  But without a chassis dyno, becomes more tedious.  And the various settings and controls are not so intuitive and not so easy for an interested amateur.  MSD system looks more or less comparable to FAST EZ EFI and retrotek (professional products).  The ACCEL DFI looks even more confusing to me...  justin
P.S. - a big problem with the pantera is that, if the engine does not catch on the first try with the starter, you have to turn ignition to off and then on again to crank the starter again.  In some, maybe all, of these systems, ignition off starts a process of resetting the idle control motor.  That takes maybe a minute or so, but there is not outward indicator of the process.  If you dont give it that full minute, then when you re-crank, the idle motor is not in the right position and the car wont run right the entire time it is running.  Ask me how many years that took me to figure that out....  that is the kind of thing you discover when you try to make these things work.  justin