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Where to start? We bought a 36 Chevy coupe to restore. It seemed to start as a restore to a newer daily driver with the TPI engine. Its not a bad looking engine and injection system for the car to tell the truth. It looks like it came from a salvage camaro, all the wiring is there, computer, with the fuel lines and exhaust hacked off like it came from a junkyard though. Its got the 700R4 trans and a ford rear end.
Thing is, that motor had around 250 horsepower if it was lucky in 1985. Its a light enough car, all new tubular frame has been done with the basic mustang II front end, that shouldnt need that much power to turn heads, but how far can you go on a rebuild with the computer. I see guys running either 19 or 22 pound injectors on that combination, but how far can we go on compression and cam to get more out of the motor without that much computer knowledge? I bought the ACCEL performance fuel injectors to put on a lumina we were working on and kept misfiring due to too much fuel. Just figured fuel trim and such would need to be programmed to get them to run properly.
Anyone have any experience with this type of swap or since there isnt much computer knowledge here should we just get a stock rebuild kit and be happy with some exhaust pipe rumble instead of some cam rumble?
Thing is, that motor had around 250 horsepower if it was lucky in 1985. Its a light enough car, all new tubular frame has been done with the basic mustang II front end, that shouldnt need that much power to turn heads, but how far can you go on a rebuild with the computer. I see guys running either 19 or 22 pound injectors on that combination, but how far can we go on compression and cam to get more out of the motor without that much computer knowledge? I bought the ACCEL performance fuel injectors to put on a lumina we were working on and kept misfiring due to too much fuel. Just figured fuel trim and such would need to be programmed to get them to run properly.
Anyone have any experience with this type of swap or since there isnt much computer knowledge here should we just get a stock rebuild kit and be happy with some exhaust pipe rumble instead of some cam rumble?
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