Screwed no matter what...

[Lincolnmania]

no he has a 302

[phayzer5]

I bought my 6a box cheap from the trackside swapmeet, and my digital 6 for the new motor was $200 off ebay, $300+ new...you can get em cheaper. I have an RPM intake, 600cfm edelbrock, and duraspark dist that works fine if you wanna go with used parts

[Tiggie]

I got a used Weiand Action-Plus for $50, a used 600-cfm Holley for $65, and a Lokar kit for $60. That's about the extent of my conversion. I don't guess you can really call it a conversion since my car already had a carb, but can you really call a VV a carb? Early cars = teh win if you want to run a carb.

[AOD]

What motor are you putting that 750cfm carb on?

I went the $125 ignition method and used an HEI distributor on my car...works great!

~Adam

[mrltd]

I'd run a 650 or 750 on the motor in the wagon...cost is pretty much the same.

[Mercmarquis]

what about megasquirt? I want to see someone use it just b/c its interesting.

I'm gonna try MS this winter. My tech teacher said he would help me solder the kit together. It looks really neat. I need to buy a laptop tho, but megatune is a simple program you can run on a windows 95 computer with no problem. So getting an old laptop cheap shouldnt be hard.

If you are gonna convert to a carb, you coud probably sell the GT-40 intake and the electronics, marauder box and stuff for a pretty penny to offset the cost off the parts. There is a ton of carb intakes on ebay and many carbs and ignition boxes too. You could probably piece it together pretty cheap if you dont mind using used parts.

[AOD]

Megasquirt on a mostly stock motor?? I don't understand why...

[phayzer5]

A non-functional hoodscoop? I don't understand why...

[Mercmarquis]

Megasquirt on a mostly stock motor?? I don't understand why...

Its not gonna be stock, i have a 5.0 roller in the garage thats getting rebuilt. Basicly it will be an HO short block. Gonna get a set of P heads or used TFS heads or I might try the cheapy procomps (people say they aint too bad). For a cam, I'm not too sure what would be best for me at the moment but I might use a E-303 cam.

For the intake I dont know what would be the best in cost and power, but I have been looking into those probe EFI spyder intakes and elbows, either that or a performer efi or something simmilar. I was gonna do a JY Twin setup, and I still might but I thought a single might be easier to make the cold side.

I'm gonna make my own single turbo setup. Hence the MS, so I can keep the motor from detonating and blowing head gaskets left and right, and to keep the motor from genading. Theres also no MAF to deal with and I can tune the car with a laptop. I'm limited to 20psi of boost with MS but thats fine cause I'll probably never even come close to 20psi on a stock shortblock.

I abbreviated the hell outta this cause I dont have time to type nor do I want hijack the thread.

BACK on topic...

[mrltd]

If you are gonna convert to a carb, you coud probably sell the GT-40 intake and the electronics, marauder box and stuff for a pretty penny to offset the cost off the parts. There is a ton of carb intakes on ebay and many carbs and ignition boxes too. You could probably piece it together pretty cheap if you dont mind using used parts.

Stating the obvious.

But I'm not really keen on buying electronics off ebay... I am full aware of how/where to find everything, up to a year ago I had EVERYTHING sitting in my barn-including a stack of T-5's pedal assemblies, and everything else you could think of.

I need to pay off some CC's and then worry about the car. I've been considering a TwEECer to do the tuning on the car. Still gonna cost at least another 700 bucks for the tweecer and a wide band 02. Washed the car and tossed a cover on it. It can wait.