Fuck carburetors! I’d rather diag a no start on an EFI car for ten years than pump a carb while cranking it over to start. I hate, hate, hate, hate…hate…carburetors. They suck. Literally. A carburetor has jets that meter how much fuel is sucked into the engine, and being an internal combustion engine wants to run wide open naturally, it tends to suck too much fuel. Hence the reason EFI, or even mechanical set ups, deliver better fuel economy. They regulate how much fuel the run away machine takes. And then there’s things like instant tuning adjustments on EFI machines. Change altitude on your carbureted shit, and you need to dig out your pocket screwdriver and make some adjustments. All the while I’ll pass you with my MAF sensor. And cold starts? Ha!! It all changed for me when my father had carbureted junk that he had to nurse with his right foot to keep running for the first 35 seconds, and mom’s cars were EFI and you could lean in over the wheel and hit the key and run back inside where there’s heat. And tunability…I could go on and on. But the short of it is, mechanical, multi-part pieces of equipment just simply don’t cut it for TRUE performance.
And yeah, 6.0L’s cost wayyy too much. I have an iron (LQ4/LQ9) 6.0L that weighs 204 lbs…about 90 lbs heavier than it’s alloy counterpart. Reasons I’m selling it. I’m not saying where there’s an aluminum five-three for $875, but it exists. And it’s cheap. And 87 octane reliable.
But I need a '97-'98 Y-chassis fuel rail…only LS with a return line to accomodate my Third-Gen fuel system…anyone? lol
I’ll make a carb run better (in all aspects of performance, other than maybe cold start), than any late 80’s GM junk EFI, esp when it’s being adapted to anything other than a stock engine.