I have an '89 F250 w/a 351W or 5.8L. It has the typical Spider injection system that most early 5.8s had. I was wondering if there is a injection system other than the Spider type I can use on my engine?

 

What is your objective by swapping? Anything is possible depending on your needs and thickness of your wallet.

 

Never heard it called a "spider" intake but yeah... what are you hoping to accomplish?

 

I think the spider injection was a GM thing...

 

I stand corrected. & yes Spider injection was on GM's. Ok, but what type is on the '89 351W/5.8L? & What can I replace it with? I would like to give it a cleaner look onder the hood, not that ugly bulky system it curently has...

 

I would prefer something somewhat stock that I can remove & recondition from a boneyard.

 

Maybe a lower intake from a Lightning, GT40 upper from the same or a Mustang might be what you are after. The Lightning pieces can be pricey. Conanski posted a few pics of the Typhoon intake he purchased for ~350$. That might be a better way to go.

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If you're hoping to get it to look like a carb intake then you'll be SOL unless you simply put a carb on the motor, all the stock Ford EFI intakes look similar and have a lot of cables and hoses on them. If your truck is one of those with the air injection plumbing on top of the motor then all that can be removed and plugged where necessary, then you'll end up with something that looks like this..


Which still isn't exactly tidy. You could go a little further and remove and plug the vacuum lines from the upper and replace it with a firewall mounted vacuum tree from one of the cars and then connect the source to the PCV port on the back of the intake. Route the plug wires cleanly, put a boot over the distributor like the 5.0 mustangs had, and add the plastic cover over the throttle linkage which I haven't installed in this pic. If the truck doesn't have AC then that will remove a few other hoses. It's still not going to look super clean because there's nothing you can do about the wiring harness for all the sensors and injectors, but it can be improved I guess.

The car style intakes are laid out different with the TB over one of the valve covers but there are just as many wires and hoses so it's not a lot tidier when its all on there.