Re: 1956 Packard (maybe 1955?) questions

Posted by R Anderson On 2010/1/13 18:31:03

That FI is definitely not a Bendix Electrojector, being a '58 DeSoto owner I'm familiar with Tom White's ex-car, one of about 10 '58 Adventurers originally with FI. There were more 300Ds and a couple of D-500 Dodges also, virtually all were retrofitted back to carbs. Tom found a set on the shelf off another retrofitted car, it was all electronic, originally developed for aviation, and his background as an electrical engineer allowed him to re-engineer and improve on the original circuit design which had capacitance issues. He sold the car about a year ago.

As far as K-Jetronic, it's an excellent FI system, we have several 80s Saab 8 valve (solid lifter unlike the 16v) Turbos that we autocross, and the FI is pretty much bulletproof. But our son the Nuclear Physicist loves complexity and wants to chuck it all for programmable Megasquirt.