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Veteran Posts: 114 Location: South Australia | christine-lover - 2012-06-11 10:25 PM Here's the photos of a system in a 1958 Fury from an April 1986 issue of Collectible Automobile. WOW Again!! That is just Awesom!! I can't stop looking at that pic.Man that 350 probably would have had some punch too,with F/I on it?. So i take it that the photo is a late 50's photo printed in the 1980's magazine? A '58 F/I CG 350 Plymouth Fury...i just got me a new dream car!!.....:) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1316 Location: Belgium, 40 miles south of Brussels | Here is an older topic with LOTSA pics : http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=19270 | ||
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Veteran Posts: 206 Location: Chattanooga | Does anybody have a picture of the emblem on a 1958 Dodge? We know the emblem was on the front fender of the DeSoto and Plymouth, but I would love to see a picture of a Dodge with fuel injection. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1493 Location: Jamaica Plain, MA | I know a fabricator who works from 3D computer models and a 3D printer. He can make almost anything from comic book characters to Hollywood costume pieces, props, etc. The final product would probably be in resin, although he does metal casting, too. Is that helpful? | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | RamPhoenix - 2012-06-19 1:19 PM Does anybody have a picture of the emblem on a 1958 Dodge? We know the emblem was on the front fender of the DeSoto and Plymouth, but I would love to see a picture of a Dodge with fuel injection. I would love to see a photo of one of these FI D500. Anybody? I surmise it was on the front fenders and not the rear quarters, listed in the parts catalog as a front fender nameplate. Maybe White does, I've heard he had some photos of a FI Fury back in the day on the beach, Daytona? | ||
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Location: The Mile High City | RamPhoenix - 2012-06-19 11:19 AM Does anybody have a picture of the emblem on a 1958 Dodge? We know the emblem was on the front fender of the DeSoto and Plymouth, but I would love to see a picture of a Dodge with fuel injection. I'd like to see one too. On the solid color or standard or deluxe two-tones, the front fender placement would be easy. On the saddle or spring special cars, I don't know what they would do! | ||
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Veteran Posts: 233 Location: Oxnard/Ventura, California | d500neil - 2012-06-12 11:33 PM ..I remember "traffic lights" as causing the cars to stumble/stall. That was the main reason I heard the electrojector was recalled. I didn't know they had paper-wrapped capacitors! Makes sense now... KFD | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 929 Location: Finger Lakes NY | there was a guy who posted in the old forums saying he had found a d500 f/i car in a ravine never heard anymore about it so there may be a dodge out there | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | fast59desoto - 2012-06-29 5:26 PM there was a guy who posted in the old forums saying he had found a d500 f/i car in a ravine never heard anymore about it so there may be a dodge out there That's the legend I heard. But I guess it's just that. | ||
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On the reliability note... Chrysler paid Norm Thatcher to test drive a pre-production F.I. 300D across county for publicity. Upon arriving in Southern California he was interviewed and quoted as saying it was a flawless trip in the newspapers, however members of his shop many years later said he had non-stop problems and bugs. Added to this, that when he started his trip he was only getting a 4 to 6 miles per gallon. Keep in mind this was only a very short while before the cars actually went on sale. Chrysler used Norm's shop to prep the West Coast media cars, which included some F.I. cars for the media & VIPs. They also used his shop to remove the F.I. from these specific cars. Norm received crates to return all setups back to Chrysler. Almost all of them made it back ;0) Edited by Hyfire 2012-06-29 6:42 PM | |||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | The Dodge "in the ravine" was/is a 1957 D501 sedan, that was featured as the "Pile of Dodge" in MoPar Muscle magazine, 15-ish years ago. That car was found lying on its top, so all of the mechanical goodies were still preserved (sorta). It was going to be restored, but haven't heard anything about its condition, in many years. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1788 Location: calif | i have a few pixs of my partial 361" bendix setup,if someone wants to 'crop' them so they can be posted here,PM me with your email address | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Chuck; send 'em to me; I'll get them posted here, alright. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Desoto (1958 Desoto Adventurer EFI 3.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1958 Desoto Adventurer EFI 3.jpg (80KB - 360 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Here's Charlie's pics; slightly smaller... (Fuelie.jpg) (Fuelie2.jpg) (Fuelie3.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Fuelie.jpg (38KB - 354 downloads) Fuelie2.jpg (49KB - 363 downloads) Fuelie3.jpg (45KB - 332 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | These photos were taken by a MT photog, in September 1957. They were posted on page 116 of the "Photographs" thread, but they should be moved over here, to preserve their presentation Edited by d500neil 2012-12-22 7:29 PM (Fuielie 1.jpg) (Fuielie 2.jpg) (Fuielie 3.jpg) (Fuielie 4.jpg) (Fuielie 5.jpg) (Fuielie 6.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Fuielie 1.jpg (75KB - 380 downloads) Fuielie 2.jpg (67KB - 369 downloads) Fuielie 3.jpg (72KB - 383 downloads) Fuielie 4.jpg (59KB - 363 downloads) Fuielie 5.jpg (85KB - 380 downloads) Fuielie 6.jpg (130KB - 380 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | And, just to recap, the PLY and Adventurer Fuelies found, to date: Plymouth: a Belvedere and a Fury hardtop (immediately above; probably a prototype, but both are seen previously on this thread) Adventurer: One white one (immediately above; probably a prototype, the gold hardtop, both are seen above) and Tom White's convertible). 300D: dunno how many of them (-their bodies) have survived. Dodge: None documented to have survived. Actually, does anyone know the story on that sorta-green Adventurer, on Page 1 of this thread? Thought that the car's color might be from pigment shifting in its emulsion(a slide photo?), but, the surrounding grass, foliage and sky appear to be Kodachrome-correct, so that car might have been painted in that greenish color??? Edited by d500neil 2012-12-22 2:49 PM | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | How about this for a rumor? There HAD to have been one or more Corp Honchos, or maybe an influential owner, who had tried to get, or got, a Fuelie Imperial. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 654 Location: NC | Man o Man. those pictured cars are some more beautiful!!!! | ||
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Expert Posts: 3480 Location: Montreal, Canada | d500neil - 2012-12-22 2:32 PM These photos were taken by a MT photog, in September 1958. They were posted on page 116 of the "Photographs" thread, but they should be moved over here, to preserve their presentation It's september 1957, not 1958. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1728 Location: Fleetwood, Pa | Desoto headlite bezels are definitely silver in that picture. Just an observation, not related to this exact thread..... It would be nice to start an "ARCHIVE" thread to post detail vintage photos of "original" cars so restorer's could visit that site to page through the photos to answer their questions about how to paint/restore items for their cars.......just a thought.....or is there already one and I'm missing it? Edited by sidesho_bob1961 2012-12-23 7:01 AM | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 654 Location: NC | I just happened upon a few things that I had received in September from an engineer who was at Chrysler and who knew about the FI stuff. He sent me an article that was in Hemmings in 2004 and a copy of a 14 page "owners manual" for "The Bendix Electrojector" printed/copyright in 1956. He also mentioned a SAE technical paper that was presented Jan 15, 1957 on the FI system. I may be rehashing something but the Hemmings piece says that the cars were built with dual 4s and taken to the DeSoto plant on Warren Ave to be fitted with the FI system and a 40 amp generator. According to a Bendix manual, 2 Fury cars, 16 300 cars, 12 D500 cars & 5 DeSotos received the FI treatment. He also says that there is more on "www.allpar.com about the FI stuff. | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | Neil, Another anecdote of a F/I Dodge. A man selling parts at the Monroe Swap Meet 20 years ago told me he took the F/I emblems off a car in a wrecking yard somewhere in SE Washington or NE Oregon a few years previous. When pressed for details, he said he picked yards all over and could only nail it down that closely. He did say they came off a Dodge. | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | sidesho_bob1961 - 2012-12-24 3:56 AM Desoto headlite bezels are definitely silver in that picture. It would be nice to start an "ARCHIVE" thread to post detail vintage photos of "original" cars so restorer's could visit that site to answer their questions about how to paint/restore items for their cars ....... .....or is there already one and I'm missing it? ======================================================= Argent was a new and widely used trim paint for 58 Mopars. All big DeSotos got Argent headlight "buckets" for 58. The postcard thread would certainly be a good place to start for period photos that might capture the kind of car a restorer is looking for evidence of original finish on. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2524 Location: Houston | If he couldn't recall where he pulled the emblems, he probably also couldn't recall what type of car they came from. Plus, don't forget any Chrysler products can be correctly referred to as 'them Dodges'. | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | Thanks to tactical interrogation training, I felt his answers were pretty good. He knew his cars and knew a 57 DeSoto from a 58, and a 57 Dodge from a 58. He also knew a Dodge from a DeSoto. Perhaps you talked to him too and came away with a different impression ? | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Last Friday this manual showed up on eBay, it was listed for less than 15 minutes. The buy now price was $30. Filled with descriptions how each component works and many diagrams of each part, etc. (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (109KB - 317 downloads) image.jpg (97KB - 329 downloads) image.jpg (125KB - 310 downloads) image.jpg (129KB - 302 downloads) image.jpg (121KB - 305 downloads) image.jpg (118KB - 315 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | You bought it then?!! | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Yes, I was lucky to see it that early. When I can get my hands on anything FI related, I do. The seller of this was in Michigan (go figure), as was the seller with the X part of the FI script I bought last year. They didn't have any other items relating to FI. | ||
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Regular Posts: 64 Location: Home of the Gouverneur - Graz / Austria | And they never did test driving along streets with neon signs ? Just on factory test tracks ? | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | You got yourself a prize there, for $30.00. I'm sure it's worth more! | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | I may be wrong, but I thought that traffic lights also bothered the Fuelies' operation. Nowadays, the "fix" to their paper-wrapped capacitors is relatively easy to accomplish. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | imopar380 - 2013-05-25 5:24 PM You got yourself a prize there, for $30.00. I'm sure it's worth more! I know, I probably would have paid much more. | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7808 Location: Williams California | Great score, Matt!!!!!!! ---John | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | These air cleaner lids are for FI cars, the part number is not the same for dual quad cars. Although the lids were the same as carburetor ones, the bases were different, they were serviced together hence the different part number. These were found in GA but no bases. (image.jpg) (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (58KB - 298 downloads) image.jpg (119KB - 297 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | This passenger side exhaust manifold I believe is for 350/361 fuelie cars, as it has no heat riser valve. It does have a heat tube though for the cold start/ warm up sensor. Two of these, both NOS, were found in an old building in GA recently. Edited by christine-lover 2013-12-09 7:27 PM (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (151KB - 296 downloads) image.jpg (129KB - 288 downloads) image.jpg (160KB - 284 downloads) image.jpg (179KB - 359 downloads) image.jpg (140KB - 309 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1622 Location: Seville, OH | Aside from the intake/engine mods, and the emblem, did the FI cars have any other mods, e.g.; gearing, suspension mods, brakes, etc? | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Swept57 - 2013-12-10 10:21 PM Aside from the intake/engine mods, and the emblem, did the FI cars have any other mods, e.g.; gearing, suspension mods, brakes, etc? I don't believe so, they had the hi-po parts same as dual carb cars. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | My understanding is they were built as standard performance models - 300 Ds, Adventurers, D500s, and Furys - and then modified afterwards (off the assembly line but still at the assembly plant) to use the fuel injection systems. When the EFI systems were recalled, the dealers were instructed to replace the EFI setups with replacement dual four barrel carburetors and ignition systems that the cars had been built with originally. Of course that doesn't explain the Belvedere! | ||
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Expert Posts: 1728 Location: Fleetwood, Pa | No updates to this thread for a long time.... I just re-read the whole thread again. I remember when I talked to Tom White at Hershey one year (prior to him locating the Bendix Electrojector unit) that he could have painted his car two different ways when he restored it. Gold w/white spear or white w/gold spear, since technically is was shown at the various auto shows in both configurations (which auto companies did regularly). It was a lot cheaper to repaint a few cars then build multiple copies in different colors for the big auto shows throughout the year...... Therefore, we can probably assume that even though there are pictures of different color 58 Adverturer EFI convertibles in the above auto show photos, they're most likely the same car......maybe even Tom's old car... | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 398 Location: Watertown South Dakota | I just browsed this thread quick,,very interesting. I was at a guy's place a few years ago, he had a 58 Plymouth 4 door hardtop,,claimed it was a FI car. It was raining out, we never got close to the car and he wouldn't let me go and look at it. He was a huge Forward Look guy, knew his stuff. But, I sure would have liked to look under the hood. | ||
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New User Posts: 2 | Nice Car. | ||
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Location: The Mile High City | A link to the 300D http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=68329&posts=32#M561158 | ||
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Veteran Posts: 114 Location: South Australia | I have just re-read this thread, and it would have to be one of my favorites on here...what cool stories... My two door hard-top Belvedere (57) still lurks in the shed, and probably will do for some time. Originally it was going to be a red and white special, but i later changed my mind to doing a Fury tribute, but in black (it's not an original Fury, so i don't think it matters...but it is an original black car). I am also keen to load it up with all the options i can, which brings me to this thread.I know i'll never get the chance to buy a genuine FI set up, but in the spirit,i see Holley do a two barrel throttle body set-up, which a pair would look very cool on my 318 poly... The other part is ,did anyone ever have a go at re-producing the FI script?or would anyone be able to put-up or perhaps PM me some rough die mentions so i could look into re-producing a pair...i can only have a go... | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 398 Location: Watertown South Dakota | I haven't been on here much lately and just read part of this thread on the FI cars. I did find a fella with a bunch of FL cars and he had a 58 Plymouth 4 door hardtop that he claimed was a factory fuel injected car. It was raining hard and he didn't want to let me look at any of his cars up close, just did a drive by. Really didn't want to sell any either. I will have to look him up again, it has been a few years since I talked to him. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 630 Location: Lubbock, TX | christine-lover - 2013-12-09 6:25 PM This passenger side exhaust manifold I believe is for 350/361 fuelie cars, as it has no heat riser valve. It does have a heat tube though for the cold start/ warm up sensor. Two of these, both NOS, were found in an old building in GA recently. My dad was lucky enough to purchase one of those NOS EFI Exhaust manifold sets. If anyone is in need of one for a Fuelie Forward Look car, send me a PM anytime. We can probably work out a deal. ~Peter | ||
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Member Posts: 8 Location: New York, NY | So, other than that 300D that was up for sale a little while ago, has there been any major discoveries regarding these EFI cars? How about a definitive answer to the exact number of cars built? Is Tom White's Adventurer still the only one with a working version of the system? I'm interested in the difference in performance experienced by fuel injection vs. carburetors, because the EFI system was suppose to give these performance cars an extra 10 hp, but unless someone takes the Adventurer to the track, I don't think we'll ever really know the full potential of these fuel injected mopars. Edited by Rock'nRoll 2018-08-12 3:53 PM | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | Quantifying what 10hp feels like at the throttle is hard to do. A little cam adjustment, carb tuning, and installation of larger valve heads gave my single 4bbl Fireflite a notably brisk level of "perky" it did not have before I did the work. I had hoped at one point to have my car done and in a place where it could be run alongside the White-restored F/I Adventurer, but it was not to be. My car had strong pull at any speed, but was nothing like my 66 Coronet, with 440 Magnum, 4-speed, and 3.23 posi gears. The DeSoto convertible is a heavy car ! | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9692 Location: So. Cal | Rock'nRoll - 2018-08-12 12:45 PM So, other than that 300D that was up for sale a little while ago, has there been any major discoveries regarding these EFI cars? How about a definitive answer to the exact number of cars built? Is Tom White's Adventurer still the only one with a working version of the system?...... My friend Per just got his 300D fuelie running with the original system in place. He used an aftermarket fuel pump because he didn't trust the original. I think the electronics have upgraded components too, but I don't know many details. He's still working on getting it to run reliably. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 594 Location: Melbourne, Australia | One vital piece of the Holy Grail !
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MOPAR-1832038-NAMEPLATE-FUEL-INJECTION-1958-PLYMOUTH-DODGE-DESOTO-300-EMBLEM/183374074575?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
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