2:45 pm
May 27, 2012
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I have a buddy with a 73 CJ with a 258 inline 6. He is wanting to covert it to fuel injection. Does anybody have any experience with these conversion kits and have any pro/con recommendations from one brand to another? Things to avoid / look for?
Thanks,
3:39 pm
Club President
April 2, 2003
Offline I kicked the same conversion around for my CJ-5.
There are several kits out there (well, there was when I looked into it). Mopar makes a kit that I was going to go with because of smog support. I think there was a howell kit that used a TBI set up and another kit that was better. I had narrowed it to the Mopar and the kit I can remember the name of.
It's not cheap and the mileage improvement was small from what I recall. The horsepower gain was the main benefit.
4:08 pm
January 7, 2003
Offline On my 83 CJ7 I used a kit made by Hesco called mopar fuel injection. It was the same system used on the Wranglers. It beat the heck out the old carb. To me its main selling point is reliability. On the coldest of mornings, just reach in the window, turn the key and walk away. No more pumping or playing with the carb to keep it running. It would aslo run perfect at any altitude or angle. No more worries on those high sierra trails. Its not cheap, but no efi conversion is.
5:01 pm
Club Member
September 3, 2008
Offline Howdy, what motor was that used on?
I have an amc 360 and I get mixed signals about getting rid of my carb. But that sounds nice from your experience.
Um...what?
12:50 am
January 27, 2011
Offline Other big pluses for the FI was less issue with high angle performance and better high altitude performane
If you go to the JeepForum and search on "fuel injection conversion", you can read for days.
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3:27 am
May 27, 2012
Offline "Howdy" wrote: On my 83 CJ7 I used a kit made by Hesco called mopar fuel injection. It was the same system used on the Wranglers. It beat the heck out the old carb. To me its main selling point is reliability. On the coldest of mornings, just reach in the window, turn the key and walk away. No more pumping or playing with the carb to keep it running. It would aslo run perfect at any altitude or angle. No more worries on those high sierra trails. Its not cheap, but no efi conversion is.
This is exactly what he is trying to solve to. He's knows its going to cost a few bucks, but he's tired of fuel issue
Thanks all.
3:18 pm
January 7, 2003
Offline "finder_87" wrote: Howdy, what motor was that used on?
I have an amc 360 and I get mixed signals about getting rid of my carb. But that sounds nice from your experience.
It was on the 258ci 6 cyc. I believe it was the 4.2l.
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