The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Engine Shop 235 carb to TBI swap

BO185, dude, you are waaaaaaay off on that line of thinking.
If I'm gonna bash something it will be blatantly obvious to everyone, if I wanna start something everyone will know it, so throttle back & reread the post. You may note there's some humor inserted here & there for that exact reason. As it stands you are more than welcome to ask the mods to have a peek if you feel I've commited some greivioous offense.

Back to the topic at hand though,...

You asked why spend the kind of money a custom ECU like the Megasquirt or SDS when you can use OEM form another vehicle, I answered YOUR qeustion with MY reasoning.
And since I'm more interested in the actual EFI swap subject than anything here's a lil more reasoning go along with the subject.
I'm all about using EFI, I put a system on the 350 in my '65 3/4 ton Chevy and loved it. I did a full conversion with a Holley Pro-Jection system running a 650cfm 2bbl TBI on top of a Eddelbrock Peformer intake. Custom stainless fuel lines, modified tank, all the bells & whistles, only thing I didn't have was a MAF & an O2 sensor. And man, it flat out screamed. Pulled hard from idle to WOT & was a breeze to tune at rest or on the fly with no computer needed. It even got better emissions than new cars, and with no smog equipment, I loved it.

My point in saying what I did is I have seen many people make junk-yard EFI systems work, but playing the devils advocate here, I have also seen just as many suffer from problem after problem because the ECU just doesn't work with the engine it's on. Can quickly tunr into a nickle & dime ya to death expereince.
EFI, especialy a closed loop system with full sensors is far superior to carbs, always will be, but only if it works. Is a tunable ECU a better way to go with mismatched parts? Of course, but I'm not saying it's the ONLY way, not by far.