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.......Maybe stop listening to that guy. There's no advantage to carbs.
Agreed, they are worse in all ways. Maybe the simplicity of tuning the fuel is about all I can think of.
And even then, fiddling around with jets that have overlapping effects, swapping jets around... it's not really easier.
Not compared to plugging the laptop in and tippy-tapping on some keys to alter the fuel map.
My wife?s uncle is a die hard Mustang guy and he keeps bugging me to 5.0 swap it. Did you keep the fuel injection? He?s saying to do HCI and switch it over to a carburetor.
Very true lol. Also, I just looked into making a 5.0 put out 300hp+ and it seems to be pretty damn expensive.
Interesting.If you want a cheap stick shift for LS swaps, check out Fabbot. it's a $420 (Nice) adapter that uses a 4L60E bellhousing (pretty much free) and a Colorado AR5 trans. Those are cheap, like $100 to 200 already pulled from junkyards around here. They can hold 600hp+ apparently. No exotic clutch setup either, just an fbody LS1 flywheel and clutch kit.
The "V2" engine I posted up above is a combo that routinely makes well over 450-500hp to the crank when running a carb. I'm using the GT40 intake, so it's probably in the 350-400hp range. That's with about an hour of tuning with the microsquirt ECU.
He doesn?t need to spend a dime on a harness. The harness in his 1989 240 will do the job perfectly.
You should add at least another $1k for nickel and dime expenditures. That's always where you get killed on engine swaps.