Not the old engine...Let me guess: you wan't destroy your transmission by turbocharging either your old engine or your new engine?!
The engine bay is made for reverse installed manifolds/headers and a turbocharger…
I... may have fibbed here.I'm not, on either count.
The MSD Atomic is going on Ebay when the 308 comes out of the car. I see zero point in putting any more time or money into the old pushrod powerplant at this point. I'm going to fiddle with the idle speed screws and unplug the IAC tomorrow and get it running again (assuming my working theory is right) and run it like that the whopping 1-2 times a month I drive the rusty old thing until the 4.6 is ready.
I'm sure that this is not the case, because you will put the carby on the old engine. And I think you new engine will have at some point also a carby...(I could also just be losing my mind...)
For the 308, nothing. It's a bolt-on affair. I've just been reluctant to do it.What is the concern with switching to carb?
It's the opposite of that.Well... The 4.6 project sounds to me like it's a Frankenstein's monster full of parts that [should] work but will likely fail, leak, or cause more maintenance related issues.
They specialize in points-to-electronic in distributors. On the 4.6, there is no distributor. My choices are a Ford OEM computer with PATS deleted and a tune, one of the MS family of ECUs with or without an EDIS-8 module from an early 4.6 to drive the coils, or to go carbureted using the MSD MOD-6 ignition system or an MSD distributor grafted to a custom-made timing cover so that it can be driven by one of the camshafts.I dunno what all is required for the conversion but I'm surprised that Pertronix doesn't have a solution.
I like this idea. Nothing says you can't mimic the 'look' you were attracted to on the carb setup.Well, EFI is officially the answer. @CarMichael Angelo shipped my injectors this morning, so now it's time to figure out which ECU I'm going to run them with.
The red car had a 2v 4.6 that has a carb on it. I used that goofy assed MSD controller to run the coils. It all worked like it’s sposed to, and was really easy to set up, but you ain’t running no carb no mo. Yesterday, while I was at wits end with Steve, I told him that if it wasn’t for the VVTi, I’d ditch that cam sensor, and the freakin VVT, get an EDIS6, and convert the thing over to batch fired wasted spark, and ditch all of the BS finicky hall/VR sensor sync loss.They specialize in points-to-electronic in distributors. On the 4.6, there is no distributor. My choices are a Ford OEM computer with PATS deleted and a tune, one of the MS family of ECUs with or without an EDIS-8 module from an early 4.6 to drive the coils, or to go carbureted using the MSD MOD-6 ignition system or an MSD distributor grafted to a custom-made timing cover so that it can be driven by one of the camshafts.
As much as I like the look of the Lincoln Mark VIII intake, and the fact that I have the original harness to cut up and modify, I'm leaning heavily towards going with an Microsquirt with EDIS-8 to run the thing with EFI. It'll give me a super clean installation with most of the wiring hidden, be batch-fired port injection instead of TBI like I have with the 308, and I'll leave the 4.6 stock until it's turbo time. That stock 4.6 will make about the same power as the 308 that's in it, with far better street manners.
When I was still entertaining the idea of doing something with that MSD TBI system, I actually talked to him about using a Microsquirt to run it, and I almost went that route with either engine. The Mark VIII engine has no VVT, and the IMCR can simply be deleted, so I'm looking at a Microsquirt/EDIS-8 batch fire and waste spark setup myself at this point as the leading candidate.The red car had a 2v 4.6 that has a carb on it. I used that goofy assed MSD controller to run the coils. It all worked like it’s sposed to, and was really easy to set up, but you ain’t running no carb no mo. Yesterday, while I was at wits end with Steve, I told him that if it wasn’t for the VVTi, I’d ditch that cam sensor, and the freakin VVT, get an EDIS6, and convert the thing over to batch fired wasted spark, and ditch all of the BS finicky hall/VR sensor sync loss.
life was much simpler then..Now I gotta dwell in ricer hell.
That's actually VERY easily done. A few pages back I brainstormed a feaux dual quad setup for a 302. That same Dodge truck throttle body would make it easy. The manifold still costs $700, but those throttle bodies are $20 each all day long at the boneyard.I like this idea. Nothing says you can't mimic the 'look' you were attracted to on the carb setup.
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