Fuel Injection for Ford 8N?

[dullpain]

Go for it - you'll have the coolest , most unique 8N on the planet.

[hill]

There are plenty of people who have converted the old Toyota Land Cruiser 'F' and '2F' engines to run fuel injected. They do it for easy starting and marginal fuel economy increases, but mostly they do it to better enable the engine to keep running when operated at extreme angles during rock crawling. The carburators can be tuned to do pretty well but will ultimately starve the float bowl at angle.

Most commonly used is the GM TBI system. It requires a junkyard raid for both the six cylinder HEI ignition and the fuel injection harnessing, fuelpump, and sensors. The two injectors are contained in the two barrel throttle body and an adapter needs to be made up to run the throttle body on either the one or more common two barrel manifold. (I'm not aware of a one barrel TBI, and would love to be informed of one if it exists).

Lot's of successful systems have been made up using the GM controller but the best for tunaility seem to always be the Megasquirt adaptations, That system can be made to fuel most any engine and all parameters are easily adjusted using a laptop and (I think) included software. The site posted tells all about it.

If you can solder electronics and have a cooperative (read low priced) part source I have read of the job being done for little over $200.

The megasquirt boxes were being sold in ebay for as little as $130. or so when I was last interested. Don't know the current situation or price.

All that said, I think if it were mine I'd be wanting to adapt one of the small diesels that are widely available. A huge heavy flywheel powered up by a small diesel could move a mountain!

[Offy]

My 9N purrs right along and I enjoy the simplicity of it and it's ol' school feel. I use my Mahindra for milage and getting the real work done. Ths 9N still does the bush hoggin' and box blade work though.

[jwmorris]

I could understand if you were replacing a Quadra jet on a hopped up 350. But, an 8n carburetor has minimal adjustments (and for that matter compression, cooling capability, etc) and it always works. On the last 8n we bought it took less time to adjust the carburetor than it took to load the fuel injection tuning software on my lap top for BDS's DFI, not to mention doing the actual tuning. I've been told, If an engineer designed the anvil it would have 47 moving parts and never work. To put it in other words your tractor is still running after 50+ years, you replace the cast iron carburetor with a bunch of electronics it certainly won't be running in 50 more. Finish the 944 and show us some pics of that project.