carburating the EFI manifold

blulightman · Post by **blulightman** » November 25, 2008, 10:13 pm

I have read articles in the past documenting efforts to adapt and modify the inline EFI plenum and runner assembly so that conventional carbs can be utilized. Is anyone aware of the current state of this experiment?

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » November 27, 2008, 9:25 am

Wouldn't it be simpler to just swap the manifold?

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » November 27, 2008, 12:09 pm

if all you had to do was change the manifold it would be easy.
still it only took 2 days.
i did an 80 lincoln about 10 years ago,it was the early "carb style" fuel injection 302. best thing i did for the car, the whole conversion, including the new timing chain i bought because it needed one cost less than the sensors needed to fix it the way it was.
a 55 gallon barrell was filled with junk parts, wire and vac hoses when i was done.

Post by **Greg D** » November 27, 2008, 7:10 pm

An interesting concept for sure, be almost like a tunnel ram. What would be real cool if you were gonna go to all that work though, Weber Sidedrafts!

blulightman · Post by **blulightman** » November 29, 2008, 12:24 am

The reason I mention it is the number of cast aside injection assemblies I see in my wanderings at my local parts yard. If a method was derived to fabricate a performing carburated manifold by recycling and modifying scrapyard parts, the benefit is widely distributed. Personally, if someone knowledgable in flow dynamics was to add thoughts to this it might end up a great contribution to the inline six fellowship.

Post by **Greg D** » November 29, 2008, 10:05 pm

ROFLMAO, I didn't catch the big six part. I was thinking of the 5.0 lower intake, lol.