Well, that got ya in here. I'm fairly new to the third-gen scene here(couple months) and keep hearing about a cross-fire TBI??? What exactly is this. Thanx guys.

P.S. I did a search and found nothing.

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Im not sure how it works, but early 80's chevrolet did some experimenting on the camaros and vettes and put this intake on it. It did not produce good numbers as far as power goes.

 

crossfire injection uses 2 single TBs and a strange manifold. They have a "spinner" to swirl the air/fuel mixture. It didn't produce much power just like the standard TB engines didn't. It wasn't all the intakes fault, usually it was on crappy engines (bad heads etc). Personally I don't like crossfire, too complex for what it is. TB is an evolved crossfire system because it uses the same kind of injection system but a different design which resembles a carb. There weren't too many performance parts for the crossfire setups. Go to www.turbocity.com, they have some stuff but it's still not worth the effort, TBI is more flexible and cheaper since it was offered in more than just a few vehicles.

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I think its the intakes fault. The idea is sound though. look at the '69 Z28, they had a Cross Ram intake, just get one of those intakes and put dual TBIs on them.

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Okay, so the x-fire is kinda screwy and not worth the work. What about putting two or even three tbi units on an intake for two carbs. Possible?? How could I go about doing it.

 

get an old 6 pack carb intake(for three 2 barrel carbs), 2 more stock tbis, 3 TBI to 2barrel carb adapters from Howell, then some wacky computer to run 6 injectors, maybe from a 4.3L v6. good luck. I WANT TO SEE THAT!
-Tas

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Can you imagine the confusion then? 3 separate TB units. Would you have each of the units spit out 1/3 of the volume needed? Anything else would require separate sensors, etc. Sounds kinda superfluous except for possibe "Coolness" value. BTW Has anyone else noticed that generally when coolness goes up, so do headaches?

Go ahead and add two more injectors and you have MPFI. Much better.

Just my thoughts.

Clayton

 

back when 6 packs were coming from the factory stock, they'd run off the middle carb most of the time and then on all 3 when floored.

[This message has been edited by Tas (edited April 23, 2001).]

 

I would use 2.8 TBI's.

 

Well, how would I hook up the throttle cable to multiple TBIs?? Not to mention the other ****, sensors and blah. How would I just use the middle unit sometimes and others at other times??? I'm usually prettey creative when it comes to this stuff, but I'm at a loss on this.