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Old 01-16-2006, 02:56 PM   #20
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Re: fuel injection ideas for inline 6

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Originally Posted by 68haywagon
But with a tbi on a clifford intake, won't the nice spray pattern just whack the bottom of the intake. The TBI on chevy have intake runners to follow down to the intake ports on the heads. I think a clifford intake with just the thottle body, and 3 injectors drilled into the intake just in front of the intake ports on the head would be more efficient.

Mike
No, because vacuum is pulling the fuel into the cylinders, the benefit of injectors is getting a mist of fuel which will atomize better versus a jet streem of fuel that has to break apart on its way to the cylinder.
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