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woodsnake

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My buddy is working on a late 84/85 GT. We are thinking about removing all the crappy TBI stuff, and throwing a 600 holley on it. It seems like a pretty straight forward swap, is there anything odd about the ignition in the car, or other computer related challenges?
 

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Nope! Just did my 86
 

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What all did you do to it?
 

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To convert it? Jus pulled the upper and lower intake and everythng else FI realated, put an edelbroke carb and intake on it and bought a throttle cable linkage/kick down cable and hooked it all up. I put a cam, timing chain, new lifters/rockers, billet distributor, exhaust and electric fan on it in the process...runs like night and day!
 

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Did your car have a TFI Distributor? He isn't going to change the cam in it, just clean up/out the ugly 85 wiring/vacuum hose mess. I just wanted to double check there isn't going to be a no start condition, from deleting the electric crap...
 

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Yea.....no itll pop right off!
 
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