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SDS EFI 540 Installation (Rocket)

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Toobuilder

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I've begun the installation of Ross' EFI system on the Rocket and with all the mods I plan to make I expect it to be a several month long process. I figured this would be a good place to document the installation so those interested can follow along.

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Here is a picture illustrating the old and the new. Noteworthy is the throat area of the new throttle body on the left and the Bendix RSA-5 servo on the right. Also of note is the dual entry injector adapters that I had Ross custom make for me. The dual entry tops are not catalog items and I paid extra to have them made. More on the reason later.

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This is a mock up servo adapter I fabbed out of MDF to see if the servo will fit in the vertical orientation like I want. It will, and I'll explain why I'm going against convention with a vertical mounting later. Very obvious is the significant discontinuity in size between the bores of the sump and the TB.


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Here's the monster mounted up. Yes, it's mounted at an angle. The reason is so the throttle cable only has to make a single bend from it's approach off the left side of the firewall.
 
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