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Old 06-19-2015, 03:13 PM
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Just wanted to get some opinions on a 95 gt street / strip lsx swap with single 76mm

Looking for 600-800rwhp
Think I am going to go with a TH400

I am on the fence on either a blow thru carb or efi.

Anyone with experience with this please chime in as i am on the fence with both setups.

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Do you have any experience tuning blow through carbs or boosted EFI?

I did the DIY blow through once, I will be fuel injected on any future FI builds.
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I have experience on nitrous and boosted efi, never done blow thru carb. The wiring stuff for this swap just has me aggravated. Trying to make sure the pcm matches the harness for wire or cable and this that and the other. Guess maybe I should just bite the bullet and spend 500 and have psi just do it.
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If what you described is aggravating, you will be less happy with a blow thru carb setup.
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Just having a hard time finding the right harness/ecu combo around here locally.
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Yeah, my blow-through turbo experience wore me out. Go drive the car, make a hit, take it back to the shop, wait for car to cool or get hot gas on everything to change jet/bleeds. Go drive again, then repeat the process over and over until it's right. It sucked, by the time I got it close enough to take to the track I was mad at it and sold it.

Or with efi, you can still sit in the drivers seat with clean hands and adjust fuel, timing, etc, plus the ability to look at logs is so nice.

I have heard of some people getting lucky buying a blow through carb and having it run almost perfect right out of the box. I didn't have the 1000+ to blow on another carb so I made mine work.



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