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#9 ·
Carb'd LS engines work extremely well, and are much easier fuel system and wiring wise to drop into older cars. Honestly, in drag cars and a lot of cruise applications, carbs work just fine.

But its not what a couple posters here are into, therefore its stupid!!

There are plenty of people who don't want to see wring and ECUs under the hood of a tri-five or 69 camaro.

There are plenty of people who don't want to strip a harness or pay several hundred for that, and several hundred more for tuning.


When you look at what most people want in a muscle car, most people are happy with 13, 12, 11 second cars. OK, you can take pretty much any 6.0, swap the cam, put on a dual plane, decent carb, and MSD LS ignition box, and do your swap in your garage start to finish in one weekend, and be in the 12s. (11s if you started with an LY6 or have good heads or not a heavy vehicle).

Ask Becky if she'd prefer her engine swap done and running in a weekend?

Yeah in a Jeep you want fuel injection, but they run very strong with carbs.
 
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Carb'd LS engines work extremely well, and are much easier fuel system and wiring wise to drop into older cars. Honestly, in drag cars and a lot of cruise applications, carbs work just fine.

But its not what a couple posters here are into, therefore its stupid!!

There are plenty of people who don't want to see wring and ECUs under the hood of a tri-five or 69 camaro.

There are plenty of people who don't want to strip a harness or pay several hundred for that, and several hundred more for tuning.


When you look at what most people want in a muscle car, most people are happy with 13, 12, 11 second cars. OK, you can take pretty much any 6.0, swap the cam, put on a dual plane, decent carb, and MSD LS ignition box, and do your swap in your garage start to finish in one weekend, and be in the 12s. (11s if you started with an LY6 or have good heads or not a heavy vehicle).

Ask Becky if she'd prefer her engine swap done and running in a weekend?

Yeah in a Jeep you want fuel injection, but they run very strong with carbs.
oaah know ewe diidn'nt!
 
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And I wasn't trying to pick on you. Just using it as an example. If you have been hooking up an LQ9 with a carb, into something like a 60s camaro, you'd have:

Bolted in the motor using motor plates that bolt right up to the frame
bolted on the new carbed intake and carb
connected the MSD box (preprogrammed) to your coils
connected your old fuel line to your new carb
connect your plumbing and exhaust

and boom you are running.

no codes, no major wiring.

For a guy thats been building carb'd muscle cars for 30 years and knows the ins and outs of tuning a carb, thats awesome.

And to be clear, for off road, absolutely, EFI all the way.

But theres nothing with carbs in the right application.



Too many people here are just very narrow minded.

There are a lot of examples where people are taking an LQ9 or LY6, putting on a carb intake, MSD box, and a simple cam swap, and going low 12s-mid-low 11s @ 115-120mph. Without having to know how to build a full motor, its a great option.
 
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