EFI stack injection for V12?
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It's ridiculous in this day and age of US Gov antigravity planes and UFOs and such that folks are still bolting on 6x2 barrel webers to V12s.
Old school cool, yes, but nuts.
The V12 was designed for injection from the get-go anyway.
I do know that Aston Martin Heritage has some side draft weber-looking EFI units now.
I wonder if they can be used as downdraft units?
Great Nelson's Guns! If I have to develop a stack EFI kit for our V12 Jags I will.
JWW
Old school cool, yes, but nuts.
The V12 was designed for injection from the get-go anyway.
I do know that Aston Martin Heritage has some side draft weber-looking EFI units now.
I wonder if they can be used as downdraft units?
Great Nelson's Guns! If I have to develop a stack EFI kit for our V12 Jags I will.
JWW
The reason is the length of the air charge. Run vertically with clearance for an air cleaner and so the air cleaner doesn’t rattle against the hood will yield you something like a modest 4-5 inches at most. However if you run them the proper length horizontally you’ll pick up at least 20 horsepower over the carb set up. That’s simple just grab a fuel injection set from a 1975 or newer Jaguar.
Something people with Weber’s don’t tell you is how little power they actually gain over the stock carb set-up.
I built a full out racing V12 ( 13.-1 compression, bored and stroked to 7 liters . Ported heads, bigger valves, racing camshafts, and tried to use Weber’s 44IDF’s 340 horsepower if it fit under the stock hood. That’s after spending over 3 days on the Dyno and buying $1800 worth of jets, air correction, etc etc etc.
then I replaced the Weber’s with the slightly modified carb manifold that had been modified to use 4 SU carbs( HD8’s) in less than an hour I was over 450 horsepower.
The reason is because the distance is too short.
See How long the manifold is on either the fuel injection or the stock carb set up? That’s how long you need based on using the stock camshafts.
Alternate camshafts change things and if you plan on driving around at 9000+ RPM with the right cams you can use those short air horns. If you want to stay closer to the factory redline there is little additional power using Weber’s.
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