I'm still trying to figure out what I will be doing with mine. I bought it assuming I was going to run a carb.
Shortly after I bought it I ran across my dream intake up for sale that I had been keeping an eye out for a few years. They are kind of rare, I did not think I was going to find one honestly. Considered by many to be the best cast intake ever made for this engine. Of course this intake was developed for super stock racing in the mid 70s and never was intended to go on a street car. It has some nasty idle mixture problems due to the design of the upper plenum. One way to solve that issue is to not put fuel into the upper plenum, no way for it to come out of suspension and puddle in that instance. Of course that means eight injectors at the base of the intake, AKA EFI. And, since this is a street car of course it needs to have traction control. The EFI system does this through spark retard. So, now I have an EFI system that can do all the same spark control that the MSD box is capable of and traction control.
So, I will have a locked out distributor and the program for the box will be set for 0 everywhere. I guess my back up box does not need to be a programmable unit. I guess I just keep the programmable as a back up box.
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