Our Road to EFI!!!!!!!!!

[BFD305]

Well, I am happy to say it fired tonight. Just sprayed some carb cleaner in so it didn't run for long, but it did start.
This was just the relief we needed. This project started about a year ago. We bought the EFI motor complete with harness, only 68K miles. We bought a complete gasket set, switched pans, cleaned painted, regasketed, cleaned FI, new clutch, PP, throwout bearing the works. Got it in and everything ready to go. Had a friend over and was turning over the engine to prime the oil pump when he asked if i knew the lower pulley was bent. After a thorough investigation the pulley was not bent.......the crank was! Flat out diasappointment. Why did I even get this hair brained idea of swapping in the EFI? I could have replaced the timing chain on the old motor and had this thing back running months ago!
Anyone that has done this swap knows at this point i was to far to turn back, harness installed and all the other little things. Plus i still needed a motor.
So out came the motor again. Found a crank, had it polished. Reinstalled with all new bearings. Went ahead and put in a new oil pump this time. Put everything back together. Back in the Bronco, read every book and forum to get the wiring figured out......and it fired. it is a good night. 3 weeks until he gets his license, so still a lot to do to get it done.

[Entourage]

Congrats on getting it to turn over. I know the EFI thing is on the top of most EB owners. Thanks for going through it for the rest of us :). Keep us updated on the progress but what a relief that it turned over. Congrats.

[airbur]

[BFD305]

That was just my "I'm relieved" post. I will try to get some pics of the engine bay with specific pics to where we mounted the ECU and components up soon. Our goal was for this to look clean, while still using a stock harness. Looking through some of the ones you see online (not here) they were a wiring nighmare like spaghetti in the engine bay. Jonah (my son) also put in a good stereo system. He had the tub sprayed with REFLEX bedliner, so we didn't want wires visable inside either. We ended up running everything through the cage and underneeth in conduit. It turned out nice, nothing visible for the amps or wires. i will post some pics for that too. He also had the dash powdercoated.....which I put a nice scratch down when the screwdriver slipped tightening the heater controls. Oh well....I guess **it happens.

[Entourage]

Too bad about the scratch in the dash. I am planning to go with a nice stereo in mine - would love to see what you guys did on your project. Glad it is coming together.