I have driven at least 300,000 miles in EFI cars and changed a couple of fuel filters, while carbureted cars don't run well when cold, and are inefficient. Had to rebuild them a few times (not really too much, but more than once) Whereas the EFI just runs. I know virtually nothing about the transplanting of one of these engines into something else, but some of the EFI engines have a stand alone system, so if you get all the components out of a donor vehicle, it is pretty much a plug and play. All you need to do is find someplace to put the boxes. It would take a little research, but you would be learning a valuable lesson all the while. You could actually meet current emission standards (or at least current at the time of the donor engine build date)at the same time. which doesn't matter to many people but if it is that simple I see no reason not too. They are getting incredible power out of cars now days, with insanely high MPG for the amount of power they are putting out and don't emit much more than a little C02 and water, (that may not be really correct, but you get the idea.) Not to mention the EPA will probably start requiring something like this one day anyway. BUT if you change everything over, you will have to buy a manifold and carburetor on top of everything else and if the intake setup for one of these is anything like my mustang, it will eat up the better part of a $1000 bill. Like I said earlier there is some fella on on this forum (stovebolter)that did up a 235, I can't remember when, but there was about 15 pages of info, also someone may have posted a tech tip. Go to other forums, (I apologize in advance) the HAMB, and chevytalk are a couple, they have many discussions about this sort of thing as well. If you are like me and are about as computer literate as Ogg the cave man it seems like a daunting undertaking, but bit by bit it can be done. OH I didn't see the $119 for the manifold till I finished this, but the carb is about $400 (at least mine was)
Last edited by brokenhead; 12/30/2012 8:54 AM.
