carburated lt1

[65MALI]

I noticed that chevy makes a carburated manifold for the 92 to 97 lt1 engines.anyone have any experience with this set up?

[bgm890]

It's good in street rods, but beyond that, I don't have any.

[Texas Hotrod]

It would run like any other carb'd engine.
An HEI distributor can be used w/that intake making it non-electronic.
You can remove the troublesome Opti-spark distributor and still use the gear driven water pump. It'll be low-tec and high-tec (sort of) at the same time.

If you don't like fooling w/electronics and want to trash the ugly mass of wires, it's the way to go.

Jegs sells em. They're made by Edelbrock.

[MonzaRacer]

If its a roller engine you will need the melonized distributor gear and dont let the end play get more than .035".

[65MALI]

Yeah,My brothers got an old lt1 from a 97 z28 he recked a while back in his garage just taking up space,Its pretty tempting to stuff into my chevelle but I didnt want to deal with all the fuel injection and computer stuff.will there be any significant power loss going carb.

[Samckitt]

Unless you are getting it really really cheap, why not just build a normal small block Chevy? Use Vortec heads, they are the same runner & port configuration.

Just my $.02