I'm saying good-bye to EFI

Ron,

Are you going to sell the efi? If so I would like to talk to you about what system it is and price...

If you need help of the subi give me a call I've installed a few subi's

I'll keep you in mind. 

I'm not sure if I'll sell the EFI with the complete engine, or by itself. 

I bought the EFI from CB in 2010, so it's their newer kit, before the latest ECU upgrade.

Thanks for the Subie help offer.  If I go Subie I plan on buying my complete Subaru package from Jake Raby.   Hopefully, Jake and I will be discussing kit prices next week.

I hoped to drop the engine today, but I spent most of it on my tractor leveling the new gravel on my 300 yard long driveway.

Didn't you mention in a previous thread that you have a wife who won't ride in the car again until it's reliable? 

Does driving from your house directly to Carlisle then making a u turn when you get there and going all the way to Pismo Beach before heading back to your 300 yard driveway on a single oil change while getting 40mpg and having a 2012 quality heater/air conditioner without having to look at the temperature gauge even once sound reliable?

Congratulations on your decision to go Subaru.

I'm not there yet.  Jake and I still have to talk about the price.  Jake's produces a quality product, but his engines are also on the expensive side.  Then-again, if I had bought an engine from him the first time I wouldn't now be looking for a new engine.

I know, I was joking.

Out of curiosity, what does Jake do differently with his Subaru engines? I'm not trying to question him and it's well established that his air cooled work is upper echelon. However, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scratching my head a little. "Jake produces a quality product"? Very true by all accounts. However, Subaru produces Suburu engines. They are already a quality product and not at all on the expensive side.

I hope I'm not sounding condescending. I'm genuinely interested in what different things Jake is doing on his Subaru installs.

Ron,

Dean received your email and will be in touch tomorrow to set up a time for us to talk about possibilities. Programmable FI on aircooled engines is not for everyone and I have been really picky about what engines we apply it to and who the buyers are. 

As far as Suby projects are concerned, I still have yet to go mainstream with what we are doing. I have not finished the Suby site and it currently holds virtually zero information. We have had many buyers seek out what we are doing without any advertisements or info being posted. I will probably keep doing things the way that we are as long as sales keep up at the rate they have been so far. I'd rather say less about this program and do more.

One thing is for sure, doing it our way is not cheap, doing it cheap is the quickest way to attract the people that won't carry out the install correctly and ruin the reputation. We are not focusing on just slapping used EJ series engines into conversion applications. We are building complete application specific engines with our own sub-systems and internal components to offer something thats at the next level. This includes the cooling system, exhaust system and mounting systems, of course along with 5 speed Suby based conversion transaxles.

We have no desire in selling DIY "kits" for folks to bolt onto "used" engines. We are offering a completely engineered, totally modular arrangement.

We'll talk this week.. Don't expect to see much of anything shared online for a while, to include pictures.

Thanks Jake.   I'm looking forward to our conversation next week.

I pulled the engine today.  Thank goodness I have a scissor hoist!  As expected I missed a few things (disconnecting a fuel return line and a couple of wires) but luckily my eagle-eyed wife caught them in time.

I guess you have already accepted the fact that your driving season is over for this year? It would be mid winter before we could fill an order, if we decide to work together. Your car looks very nice from what I can see of it here.

I expect that we'll be talking this week. I don't have a ton of office time this week, getting ready for a 6,000 mile R&D trip that takes me clear into Alberta Canada :-)

Hey Ron...

Wanna trade your efi for a full dual dellorto 40 setup?

Mike

Well, it looks like it may not be good-bye to EFI.  I think I've found someone locally who can tweak and tune my system to run properly.  He is very familiar with air cooled VW engines and aftermarket fuel injection systems. 

Hey Ron,

Whatever you are doing good luck. You seems to have a lot of problems with the CB EFI. Keep us posted on what you decide to do with your engine decision.