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Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2
Nope.. you could have bought a used LS1 intake and fuel rail for a couple hundred bucks. Most LSx engines you buy from salvage yards will come with all the stuff you need and then you just need to rework the harness and flash the ECU.
Is that 650-700 for the carb set up counting the Carb, Intake, Electronics, and Harness? Everytime I add it up I get at least $1000... :shrug:
Then you have to tune the carb.. and if you change big altitude you have to re-tune the carb.. If carbs are so great then why don't new cars run them anymore? lol
And while I do agree that a carbed LS motor will make more power it's at the sacrafice of drivability and fuel economy. 
The REAL cost of doing a carb:
GMPP carb intake 88958675 Scoggin-Dickey $369.75
Fel-Pro intake gasket 1312-1 Summit Racing $22.69
Fel-Pro header gasket 1438 Summit Racing $26.36
MSD ignition conversion 6010 Summit Racing $312.70
MSD extension harness 60101 Summit Racing $184.10
Carb, Holley 750 0-4779 0-4779C $415.95
Most likely I will do both and show which one makes more power and which one costs more.. sort of a shoot-out with myself. lol |
I have the Carb, The link below is for the Edelbrock setup with harness and controls the coil packs. $699 (709.99 shipped) I'll still need the gaskets. If you were to buy a FI setup
off the shelf! you would pay in excess of $2,500. Even one out of a salvage yard would be more than a couple hundred bucks. I didn't buy from a salvage yard so I didn't get all the extras. The 5.3's I picked up have Zero miles on them. I have no harness, manifold, injectors, MAF, fuel rails and so on... I thought the carb would be the budget way to go! If you can hook me up with a FI setup under $700 I would go that way, but I've not found anything that is in that range. I'm definitely going to look as I would love to be Fuel Injected over a Carb.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/EDELB...spagenameZWD1V
This is how I received my motor!
This is with the Edelbrock setup
it is very clean and from what I'm told very streetable. If you can point me in the direction of a FI system that would be the same price I would go that way. Thanks for the info I look forward to finding a budget FI system....