How to Install FiTech EFI on Ford 302 

Great Job Jon! Like Keith said you'll need a thermostat housing with the sensor bung. hehe I said "bung". Chevys have an extra one in the block but Henry apparently did not find them necessary.

Hey, great video! this helped me out a lot. Just finished doing this to my '81 F100 with a 302. Great tip on connecting the white wire to the Voltage regulator Green/Red wire. The Red/Green solenoid wire only works in Crank pos tho. As far as the temp gauge goes, my new manifold had multiple openings in the coolant pipe, so I just put both the FITech sensor and my stock sensor in them.

You sir are ok in my book. I plan on doing this same setup in the near future. Thanks for the info!

Here in the UK We have just installed the efi 500 into a 1949 f100 302 block. If you only have 1 wire dizzy then your tac wire goes to that. Your key switch wire goes to the positing coil. Different wiring for different distributors. We had a 2 wire dizzy but it wasnt tall enough to go past the inlet plenum for timing adjust but if it had then positive dizzy wire would go to positive coil and negative dizzy wire would go to negative coil. Tac would then go to negatie coil wire. We have auto water pump so positive goes to coil positive and other goes to ground. Fan wire off loom goes to positive wire on fan and negative to ground. Fuel pump positive to fuel wire on loom. Fuel pump negative to ground on chasis.inline fuel pump has to be 3 feet away from tank with filter inbetweem tank and pump. Another filter after pump the fuel line to fuel regulator. Fuel pressure needs to be 58 to 60 psi for this system.

lol disregard that last comment. I forgot to finish watching and turns out you answer my question haha awesome video. Can't wait to do one myself

Jon glad you finally got it running. Mine is still in the box 😞. I too want the dash temp gauge to work so I bought a new aluminum thermostat housing from Wild Horses. It has a sensor port.

Thanks for trying out with new products. Please note if you see any improvement in gas mileage on the next video.

you can use a brass tee and install both temp sensors so you have for the fitech and for your dash

Hi is it possible to have all original gauges working in concert with the efi system?

Great Video

Jon.., does the fitech reads the “map “ on both sides .., because you are using a dual plane intake that is completely seperated . Theres only the gasget gap I think ..?

How good or bad are they on gas milage? I have a 2 barrel holley i plan on daily driving my ford f150 302

great video, I understand you are just learning, so here is something for future , your dura spark dist. is a 2 wire dist, and while the msd dist is a great unit, I run one myself, you could of run the one you had. I just got my fitec what I'm still unclear about, is if I can still run my msd 6AL box and still use the fitec timing control, mine is going on a 72 Maverick race car, and the msd has all my rev control that I don't want to lose

Good video my brother

Are u located in Nashville tn? If so I’d like to hire u to help finish my fitech tuning, I cannot keep it at idle unless I run a manual 60 degrees of timing I’m beyond frustrated, this kit is far from user friendly

It took me 9 hours. That includes removing smog and making a custom surge tank. It fired right up first try 🤪

Not to mechanic savvy, but can I run an hei distributor with this system? By the way, awesome video. Thank you !!

Well produced video. Could you go into more on synchronizing distributor to Fitech. I do detect a problem with the 16ga. wire you spliced to main 14ga. power wire. You should have used 12ga. You are running Fitech, fuel pump, and ignition all on that to small of wire. Remember too that when you ran that ground wire back to batterie, you need to add that length to the power length to calc. amp draw.

Did you mean power on and not crank on at about 12 min mark?

It’s there another EFI that doesn’t coast $1k and require a $300 conversion?

Hey man, I'm sure it's way late, but you can add a 90deg fitting that's more like a TEE going into your intake manifold (water side) with a port available for an additional CLT sensor. Hope all is well, your videos have been super helpful restoring the old family bronco. The one I'm struggling with now is can I roll with a tach and the FITECH on the same wire off of an HEI dist., or will I have issues... I'll figure out one way or another... Either way man, cheers and very helpful videos. I think I owe you a beer at this point.

Bro can you please walk me thru a fitech install for my 83 monte carlo

use the crossover in the rear of the intake if there is one

Great video man, know it takes a lot of time to make these damn video let alone put in the Fitech system. I have 2 systems (and no I did not get one "extra" sent to me lol) but boy do I know your struggle X2. They said you could do it in a weekend, no problem... Well I guess I'm like you, mistakes are my middle name. Defiantly took me a few weeks maybe a month to get one old skool started. Theres always a few extra parts you need to order because every vehicle has s different setup. I needed a new dual sending unit for the return line and extra AN fittings which took a few days to get in (another set back). Watch out for the crush washer on the fuel pump fellas! If you don't get it seeded correctly its gonna LEAK! It took Fitech 3 weeks to send me a new F'in washer. Shit like that will slow you down... And piss you off too! I had a MSD ignition box in my system that went bad and I almost gave up trying to get my ride started. When in doubt, start over and KISS that baby (Keep It Simple Stupid) So I took the MSD box out and removed it form the system... well what do you know... it started. Check your timing and maybe just maybe you'll get to take it around the block. Check for leaks, check your work and take it easy till you get the system 100% I found out my AFR was TO HIGH and I was running rich @ 14 AFR so I bumped it down to 12.6 and running much cleaner now! Even though back in the day carbs were the SHIT, now a days very few people know how to properly adjust them. So KISS, the system is pretty solid overall and once you get it in correctly and your motor dialed in you won't regret EFI! Good luck out there. Looking forward to more videos, like your style kat! I think I even heard your wife in background celebrating you got the darn thing started! lol

Thank you very much for your help. A friend question I am connecting the fitech with the msd 6012, just to leave doubts, should I put the output cable of the tach to the blue cable of fitech? Why I understand that msd sends 12v non-negative signal ....

Great information! I recently discovered these carb style efi throttle bodies and I'm wondering how they compare to the modern 302 intakes. My daily driver is a 2001 Explorer with the gt40 heads and intake. How does the Fitech stack up on a motor that already has efi? My other option is Holley Systemax/Trick Flow Track Heat or something similar.

Great Information thanks. Wanting to get the go efi 4 because i plan on putting it on a much larger motor in the future but would be putting it on an almost stock 302 truck setup for now. Fitech is advertising this setup for between 250 and 600 hp. How wild is your setup? Is this simply too big for a stock 5 liter? thanks

Greetings friend, I would like to know in which part of the fitech cable branch is the negative? I see that only the positive (12volt) is connected but the negative does not ... wonder how or where is the negative in the fitech system? I thought it was black wire but I see it says coil not ground

Hey can you put this on with the factory wiring harness?

I'm curious as to how to FiTech controls timing. What distributor did you buy? I assume it's not a mechanical advance, then?

you can get a water neck from the intake with a temp hole.

it is not good to connect any ground wires to the negative battery terminal

Looks like fuel pump was only change needed. Did the bronco have a compatible tank and fuel return lines already?

I am trying to figure out if this would work on my F150, I have a 1996 302 I’m building from a bronco, would this do any justice to me getting more power?

What intake manifold was used with this swap?

Has anyone else complained (or remarked) as to the HUGE additional pedal effort with the FiTech? Unbelievable. Cannot easily feather the pedal without sending shock waves thru the car frame.

For the temp run a t to split the port. So u can screw the two Sensors on. 🤙🏽🤙🏽

Do you have a tach? Or do you just rely on the tach from the FiTech? The reason I'm asking is because of the #999 Gray/Yellow Wire. I'm afraid that if I remove that wire, then I won't get a signal back to my tach on the steering column.

Do you have aftermarket gauges as well?

Will this work with a HEI distriputor?

Installed on my bronco too and learned the hard way that you can not splice either an existing temp sensor or existing tach wire or you will get signal interferences on both and trip fi tech fault codes and you won't run.

Was that squeal at the end from your belt or a bearing?

Does the EFI require fuel return line?

Do you have video on how you did your fuel tank return line?

Man.... officially jealous. So what made you decide fitech over the holley or edelbrock efi offerings?

Why didnt you go with the 400 hp efi kit?

Was the accessory on, but not crank on wire the pink one?

I thought you could use a duraspark distributor with these Fitech units as well...?

Anybody else scared he was gonna talk like that all the way through?💀 also good vid man

So more than a year later how is it holding up?

MSD = My Spark Disappeared :)

Isn't that 600 a little too big for the 302

woah! you have time to tune your carb every morning before going to work? (@ 1:46) so you're saying, EVERY DAY before going to work, you set aside time to TUNE your carb? every day? and you blame this on carbs? Are you a Fitech actor or something?

Hey man I'm subbed and watch your videos lately they have helped a lot I did the 600 pa on a 302 I'm in the process of setting timing control but I have a question it seems I have some "blow by" since the install but I'm no mechanic is this too much? Check my Chanel I'll upload a video please

fitech has never worked well for us and we have done everything that they recommended, it sucks

When he said install EFI on my 302 in my 1979 Ford Bronco, I came......

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Any one wanting to buy a Fitech should think long and hard about wasting your hard earned cash on this system. Months of drama and no support for Fitech. Still not running!! Junk!!!

Carb fanatic? Nope. EFI hater? Not really. Disappointed with the FiTech? You bet. Not worth the money or the time required to monkey with it.

Don't waste your money on fitech it's garbage ask me how I know. I'm broke down all the time because of it.

I think you like your own face much more than you should there...