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Originally Posted by Sirrotica
I've driven carbed cars over the Rockie mountains and back down and didn't have any problems starting them when properly set up. Your nit picking, there are not separate carb choke specs for high elevation so the manufacturers never thought that the specs given wouldn't work in either application.
BTW, the C3 carbs (1981-1986 for the most part) will compensate for elevation as the fuel mixture is adjusted 10 times a second. The system has a map and baro sensor on it, as well as a O2 sensor and is ECM controlled..................... 
If your talking about fuel injection to be a deal breaker it's more cost efficient to retrofit a aftermarket system to a Stratosteak engine than do an engine swap.
I'm standing by what I said, IT'S AN EXCUSE NOT A REASON. |
How does one calculate cost efficiency? Is it based on just sticking with what you have, and dealing with the compromises of archaic technology, or having to fiind someone who knows how to tune your carb, because you lack the skill and desire to learn it? Is it sticking with the familiar and not wanting to change with the times?
I agree that the swap is costly to do initially (it's a hobby, so a money pit, not an investment therein) but the gains are excellent and the potential is greater than any old poncho...if you want drivability and excessive performance. (Not quite possible to have both with a carb...said not quite)
I like the idea of setting and forgetting, not twiddling and hum-hawing whether it's too cold or hot...and this is on a stack car, not some, heavy cammed, flat tappet beast belching out ungodly amounts of torque while rendering 8mpg while cruising.
I think it's an excuse to not do it (swap), under the guise that it's too unfamiliar, too new and just plain wrong...lol.
Seriously though, I have always considered a carb, a controlled fuel leak
and see no reason to not embrace the vast improvements an ls motor provides, ie. superior fuel economy, heads that flow for days in stock form (God helps us when they are ported) a car that you can plug up and it can tell you what ails it, with a plug-in and a few clicks.
Carbs be damned, fight what you fear, learn what's new...and who knows, you may actually like stepping out of th cave to embrace the electron and silicon age
Not trying to sway anyone just dolling out my
like everyone else.
Pulled out the original '68 350 in my Lemans and gave it to the junkyard for a nice little 5.3/4l60e conversion. Wit my C10 yanked out the sbc and tossed in a 6.0 but stuck with the TH350 until I get the funds to buy a 4l80e.