Best way to carb your EFI motor??
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Best way to carb your EFI motor??
Im thinking about doing this within the next couple of months and I have a few areas of concern. I wanna keep the factory short block. What are stock pistons capible of? Since im going carb'd I think ill go with aftermarket heads. Trickflow or Edelbrock. Then how to use the factory fuel pumps? Fuel pressure regulator? Id really like to keep this build under $3500 bucks. Anyone with advice??
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I wanna also make some power with this thing. IMO using the adapter would probably lose power from the stock EFI setup. I wanna go with the trick flow heads so i kinda wanna take it from there. Finding a good set of early heads around here is difficult. My big thing is I really don't want to venture far from the stock short block.
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I wanna also make some power with this thing. IMO using the adapter would probably lose power from the stock EFI setup. I wanna go with the trick flow heads so i kinda wanna take it from there. Finding a good set of early heads around here is difficult. My big thing is I really don't want to venture far from the stock short block.
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Thats good to know. Bear45/70 your right by saying bolting up everything is easy. Thats not really my concern. But the fuel system is where the difficulty will start. Thats my area of concern.
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Use the EFI fuel pumps and use a pressure regulator, like a Holley unit to lower it to what the carb can handle. Get the bypass type so the electric pump does not get hot.
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Why some people would want to to from EFI to carb is just beyond me. Kinda like going from Windows 7 to DOS 1.12...just cause they're scared to learn Windows 7. Makes no sense to me.
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Going carb'd is the easiest way you can go with aftermaket heads. I really dont wanna mess with a MAF swap, just rather go old school and pull some power out of the old big block.
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