I just bought an '88 F-350 4x4 for $1500. This will be my new off-road vehicle. The truck has a 460, C-6, Dana 60, 10.25" rear & 4.10 gears. The truck only has 91,000 miles. Anyway, on to my problem:

The engine was originally a 460 EFI. Some idiotic Billy-Bob decided to put an old 4 barrel setup on the engine, and from what I read, the heads were not designed to accept a 4 barrel intake....ports are different? The guy I bought it from tried to get it running with this setup, but he said it had horrible vacuum leaks.

So this guy decided to convert it back to EFI, but got tired of fooling with it. I have the lower aluminum EFI inake, all 8 injectors, fuel rail, but the guy I bought it from has "the wrong wiring harness from the salvage yard.” He ordered his parts from an online salvage yard, but he was given a newer model wiring harness, instead of one meant for the '88 model.

I'd prefer to convert it back to EFI, but I just want the thing running, and would be happy with a carb setup.

The other option that I have heard is to TIG weld a carb adapter plate onto the aluminum EFI intake. The EFI intake looks like a regular carb setup, except for an odd bolt pattern.

Has anyone else converted a 460 EFI to carb? What are my options?

Thanks for any advice,

Roy