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Originally Posted by freebeard
The first car with electronic fuel injection was the VW Type III. The temperature sensors are now unobtainium. Modifying Type II sensors was a possibility. As was swapping to carbs, which is what I did with mine.
I saw a Type III Fastback (an AZ car) with the fuel injection intact at a swap meet yesterday. The new owner is the eldest son in a VW family and he's determined to learn to keep it running.
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Psst... Dodge had EFI on production cars a decade earlier. The "Electrojector"!
It worked well enough, but was fragile and expensive, so few people bought them.
Bosch bought the patents from Bendix who made the system Dodge used. They borrowed heavily from the Electrojector design but made it much more robust.
And to stay on topic:
While I love old cars and my hobby is tinkering on them... I'm really getting tired of repairing my worn out daily driver. While new cars are more difficult to work on... they normally require far less work. And that appeal may mean my next commuter will be a brand new car.