[Bulk] [Gmecm] Re: LS1's with fuel leaks

[Jason M.]

The point of the carbureted manifold for the GenIII engine is more for the 
street rod/old car guys that buy the crate engine, and have to piece 
together a complete drivetrain.  It's far easier and cheaper to go with a 
carburetor when you are going this route.  Also fuel mileage usually isn't 
that big of a deal with them.

If you're yanking the engine out of a wrecked camaro/corvette it doesn't 
make sense not to keep the fuel injection.

Friend of mine has a corvette z06 long block (~5000 miles) with Lingenfelter 
heads and other misc. parts (not installed).  His plan is to put that engine 
and a new/rebuilt 6 speed in his 98 z28, then rebuild the z28's engine/trans 
to put into a 51 pontiac sedan delievery with a carburetor.

If you're wondering, the corvette owner bought a bunch of parts from 
Lingenfelter, then before they arrived decided to ship the whole car off for 
a complete engine swap.  Forget the details but I remember it being 400 
something ci and forced induction.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Lucke" <william.lucke at highspeedlink.net>
To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:10 AM
Subject: [Bulk] [Gmecm] Re: LS1's with fuel leaks


> Ok, I'll bite... How did you get that big cammed gen III? I think that in 
> the VAST majority of cases, it came out of a car in which it already had a 
> perfectly serviceable fuel injection setup. Ditching that for a carb for 
> "ease of installation" is silly in my opinion, especially considering how 
> much you give up (gas mileage, idle quality, etc) and the fact that it's 
> more trouble to swap to carb than it is to buy a stand alone controller 
> and pre-fabbed wiring harness. There are enough people out there doing 
> that that you could likely borrow a couple of maps and be running (not 
> fully tuned, but running) next week.