ExploreNW
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- Joined
- Mar 12, 2019
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- Location
- Mead, WA
- Vehicle Year
- 1994
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
- Engine Type
- 2.3 (4 Cylinder)
- Transmission
- Manual
- Tire Size
- 235/75/15
I was walking through the junkyard last weekend and noticed there are plenty of clean RBVs with feedback carbs. Clean as in no accidents, visually nothing wrong with these trucks at all.
Got me thinking... I bet you the feedback carb system got them a spot in the scrapyard. These early systems had limited diagnostic abilities and next to zero tunability. It's one of those weird relics of the '80s, half-TBI, half-carb. Exactly the thing I like to mess with out in the shop.
I want to make a direct-swap tuneable computer for you guys that have these trucks, seeing as how there isn't one. Make it a package - computer, connectors, wiring perhaps? Just a Plug-N-Go? No, I won't be getting rich, they would be a limited run and I know no one really wants to spend more than a Megasquirt conversion on their old trucks. I also have a lot of experience in software engineering (backup career) and think this would be fun for me.
Now, before I go get one of these BIIs and start screwing with it, does anyone on TRS still have the feedback system on their trucks in somewhat of a stock form and would you guys be interested in a factory-looking tuneable carb "PCM" with useful diag info?
Got me thinking... I bet you the feedback carb system got them a spot in the scrapyard. These early systems had limited diagnostic abilities and next to zero tunability. It's one of those weird relics of the '80s, half-TBI, half-carb. Exactly the thing I like to mess with out in the shop.
I want to make a direct-swap tuneable computer for you guys that have these trucks, seeing as how there isn't one. Make it a package - computer, connectors, wiring perhaps? Just a Plug-N-Go? No, I won't be getting rich, they would be a limited run and I know no one really wants to spend more than a Megasquirt conversion on their old trucks. I also have a lot of experience in software engineering (backup career) and think this would be fun for me.
Now, before I go get one of these BIIs and start screwing with it, does anyone on TRS still have the feedback system on their trucks in somewhat of a stock form and would you guys be interested in a factory-looking tuneable carb "PCM" with useful diag info?