79 turbo car carb

[outurbo79]

I've got a 79 turbo pace car and have been thinking about either going to a turbo efi setup or using a throttle body injection such as a Holley Projection system. Going efi would proably be better but it would involve a LOT of changeover where a TBI would be a bit simpler, I'm not looking for a lot of HP gain. eventually I hope to get about 200hp out of te car. I'd like to upgrade the fuel delivery system, bump up to a better cam and find a way to up the boost to 12-16lbs. dont really think the way I am thinking about doing it will work but I hope to keep the car looking mostly origional.

[Travis T]

Talk to Snoopstang over on Turboford, he had a carbed turbo that was turning some wicked quartermile times. He may have some good tips for you, if you want to leave it carbed.

[RACECAP97]

His car was HEAVILY MODDED. If your just looking for 200hp I don't think you'll have to go crazy. However I don't believe you can run that much boost with that type of settup. I have the exact same car and was thinking the exact same thing you probably are right now and decided to put a sb in mine. I even had everything from a parts SVO to do the EFI swap. The carb style settup you have isn't very cost effective $/hp and thats why you don't find much info on how to do it. I would suggest ditching that engine and either going with one from a turbo coupe or SVO if you want to stay 2.3 or throw a 302/351 in it. Figure you can go get a sb for under a grand and be over your 200hp goal and still have a lot of room to grow, or spend a chunk trying to get that out of the carbed settup and not have much room at all to grow.

[mcb82gt]

Do you still have the parts to do the efi swap? Wanna get rid of them?

[RACECAP97]

Well I sold them to my brother (WHO HASN'T PAID ME FOR THEM) for $100 for everything. He might want to get rid of some of it. His screen name is Evil86lx or something like that.