rexhunt
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Post by rexhunt on Oct 29, 2013 23:10:14 GMT -5
Hi All,
The other day I rolled my car over. It is repairable but not cost effective so I'm going to part it off and sell the body & Chassis for scrap.
What parts should I be looking at keeping that would be useful for building a GT? The engine bay didn't look like it was damaged other than the bonnet being wrinkled a little.
Cheers,
Rex
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Post by Johansson on Oct 30, 2013 14:24:00 GMT -5
The fuel pump for sure if it is a fuel injection engine, any eventual turbo is probably too small to use as a gas turbine.
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rexhunt
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Post by rexhunt on Oct 30, 2013 18:08:43 GMT -5
The car is a fuel injected naturally aspirated ford falcon. I anyone's looking for parts I'm happy to do a very good deal.  So I might keep the fuel pump when I sell off the engine. Would a power steering pump be any good for something? Cheers, Rex |
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Post by wolfdragon on Oct 30, 2013 18:29:05 GMT -5
power steering pump can be modified to be free flowing for larger volumes, very useful
fuel pump, obvious win
oil pump, even if engine driven, usually modifiable to use an electric motor, very useful
all the smaller radiators, the big engine one is probably too large to be "easily" used
the fuel injectors AND THE PLUGS FOR THEM, could be a good one for those who are inclined to use them
if it has a proper spark coil or even coil on plugs, useful
what is the car? knowing what the make/model and other details are might jog my memory on some more specific usable bits
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rexhunt
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Post by rexhunt on Oct 30, 2013 20:12:50 GMT -5
It's a 2001 Ford Falcon AU II. The engine is a 4.0L straight 6. Mine was a cab Chassis with an Aluminium tray on it.
How would one use the injectors? Don't they have some strange controlling setup?
Cheers,
Rex
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wolfdragon
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Post by wolfdragon on Oct 31, 2013 15:26:26 GMT -5
no other things to add to the list
the injectors are basically PWM controlled, just with varying duty cycle and pulse width, all you need to do is find out how many volts they want to see
as for how to use them from there, there are different building methods that would permit multiple nozzle injection better then others, I am currently playing with this a bit myself
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Post by enginewhisperer on Nov 4, 2013 4:33:29 GMT -5
if you can unroll the car I'd be interested in the whole thing  The injectors on the Falcon engine are just normal 12v high impedance type so you can drive them from anything |
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rexhunt
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Post by rexhunt on Nov 4, 2013 18:09:10 GMT -5
If you feel like flattening to roof back out and probably putting in a new A-pillar and drivers side door the body would be all good. Mechanically just the rear left wheel is not straight on the axle.
So to use the injectors in a GT you would just put them where a normal nozzle would be placed and feed them 12V and fuel and they'll spray the fuel out?
Cheers,
Rex
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Post by enginewhisperer on Nov 5, 2013 2:00:19 GMT -5
yep, but I'd say the flow rate would be a bit low if you just used one.
The spray patterns can be a bit funny too, depending on the original engine's intake port design.
The best car injectors are probably from older designs where they had one or two injectors at the throttle body instead of at each port.
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