a few answers please!
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a few answers please!
Hello everyone!This is my first "official" post so please be easy w/me.I have just purchased an 84 vette from a friend.Problem is,he had the motor pulled when i bought it so the block and heads are at the machine shop and everything else is in containers so it's a mess.So heres my dilema,I'm thinking of just putting a mildly built , carbed 355 i have at my shop into it.What would the mods be in order to get this sucker up and smoking the tires.Obviously i would have to pin the CFI wires back out of the way.Can i get "block hugger" headers to fit? The hooker super comps are just too expensive for a mild motor.Would the torque converter have to be changed?The cam i'm using is OK for stock converters so as far as size it's OK.Anyway,You guys get what i'm after .Before i catch grief over carbing this thing i just want to say that a carb already owned is cheaper than a FI unit purchased at the local parts store.IMO It would be easier for me to install the300hp/ 355 than to go through hell trying to figure out all the parts i have for the205hp. stock motor.Thanks!
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From: Garden Grove CA, '95 Coupe, Black...
I like carbs myself, but one word should stop you.
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Won't be legal. My advice, do it right or don't do it. You will be chasing headaches forever.
When I was young and stupid I tried all the same kind of stuff and now that I am old and stupid, I just spend what it takes to make it right or I don't do it.
My 0.02...
<<<EMMISSIONS>>>
Won't be legal. My advice, do it right or don't do it. You will be chasing headaches forever.
When I was young and stupid I tried all the same kind of stuff and now that I am old and stupid, I just spend what it takes to make it right or I don't do it.
My 0.02...
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Yeah i really would like to have fuel injection but i think the CFI would give me too many problems in the long run.The car was a kinda impulse buy so my wife is really giving me a hard time about it and the carb for me is not a problem as far as tuning goes.She wants it running "yesterday" if you know what i mean.I live in Western North Carolina ,they don't have an emissions test anywhere around here so thats not really a factor for me
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Go to this sight, there are allot of experts on the crossfire.
http://www.crossfire.homeip.net/cftest/
Tom
Oh yea, welcome from Northern California
http://www.crossfire.homeip.net/cftest/
Tom
Oh yea, welcome from Northern California
