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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 04:03 AM
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Some of us have all that **** laying around, not to mention a used carb is EASY to come by, a distributor is 50$ shittped new on Ebay, a regulator for carb is WAY cheaper than the EFI reg. Manifold for the SBC is cheap used and the LSxintake is the most expensive part for the carbed LSx swap. If you cannot tune a carb then you will be spending too much for it to matter much less build it yourself. For those that build our own **** we have it made.
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Old Aug 22, 2008 | 05:38 AM
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well heres a good question for u tuned port guys then

how do you burn ur own chip?????????????????????????????????????????????? ?

and i'm sure he'll sell u his old tuned port set-up. pm me if ur interested
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by F-Body Lover
you guys did the best thing believe me
i would have to disagree, my 89 gta came stock w/ the tpi and it had tons of torque and hauled ***, instead of going the easy way i picked up a LT1 manifold and modified it to fit my heads, a few days later the car went 4 tenths faster and picked up 8mph, and now i get to rev up to 6k rpms still making power instead of falling on its face at 4.5k AND i still get the same gas mileage, plus i only ended up spending a fraction of what a new, intake, carb. fuel lines, fuel regulator and all tha stuff costs... just my 2cents
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 07:33 PM
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Well, when you wanna go faster and install a bigger cam....you still need a bunch of new ****.
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Old Sep 6, 2008 | 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by onefastsunsetSS
well heres a good question for u tuned port guys then

how do you burn ur own chip?????????????????????????????????????????????? ?

and i'm sure he'll sell u his old tuned port set-up. pm me if ur interested
There is a tech article on www.thirdgen.org for getting starting with burning your own chips. It requires a laptop, the software (either TunerCat or TunerPro) and either the Ostrich or the Autoprom from www.moates.net .

I was fortunate enough to have someone show me, but I've been continuing my learning, doing chips for other people and showing them how to do their own, for the last six years.
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