Converting a Carbureted Small Block to EFI on a Chevy Nova - Detroit Muscle S3, E22 

You guys are amazing.

Gotta get Tommy, Rick and Joe on a build. They Rock! You all Rock! 🇺🇸🏁👍👍

Come to Australia for some real burnouts. Just ask the guys from 1320video.

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Is it for sale

Video clipping works wonders doesn’t it ?

Steven D just the was it is with classics lol I like it

@midnitesquirldog1 Welded diff is useless on the street

Shoulda got the posi instead.

@@sevenhornets Who the fuck uses term posi in 2020? It's a marketing name for 60s LSD.

That was funny!

What's the 2nd biggest development over the past couple of decades? ROLLER CAMS...flat tappets are pretty much dinosaurs.

I driven a carb car as a daily driver never had issue with cold morning starts, or hot days, as long as you have a proper rebuild carb not from a shop that only cleans it but one that remanufacturers it, or even better get a quality new one.

We are living almost in the 2020 now, its LSD not some gay 50s GM term like posi traction.

@Philly's Phinest Positraction” is the trade name General Motors gave its limited slip differential units in GM and Chevrolet vehicles in the late 1950s. I can link my sources if you link yours.

@Philly's Phinest 68 is alot later production than 50s gm. Z28 that have code g80 have posi rear. If i am correct its made by Eaton.

@Philly's Phinest but in the end all it was just a normal lsd and no one uses the term posi.

@Philly's Phinest everyone uses the term posi that i know.

It works sure,with a shity idle, if The partners mentioned it already tested, arent?

@Dave Micolichek okay cool I'm old school I like carburetors I find production efi system aggrivating to work on, simple as that I think efi looks ugly under a hood I like to use a screwdriver to work on my fuel system not a team of nasa scientists

And Highway Star and Panama, LMAO

yeah nah, we just laugh at them

False.....an Aussie would NEVER let someone hold their beer!!

@@williamminter7057 True, we only need to steer one handed.

@@PiDsPagePrototypes even when holding the big can of Fosters?

@@bmstylee lookup... "Darwin Stubby" 😉

Generic Ted Nugent

@@KayakTN "ned tugent"

Stranglehold........Equate Brand.

As well as Three Lock Box, and Welcome to the Jungle...

@@TheKiltedYaksman1 never caught the generic 3 Lock Box one. Will have to listen closer.

Agree. I see no reason to hassle with a flat tappet cam anymore. Roller cam is by far a better choice.

This is just a thinly disguised ad for Edelbrock and RP, and if you add up all the costs involved, you'll see it is a lot of money. An iron LS from the boneyard with a turbo setup would blitz this thing. To be fair, they said they were after reliability, and I would hope the aftermarket EFI would provide that. While the EFI was said to support up to 550 horsepower, they decided to detune the 350 with a milder cam. So, cruiser.

Half the $$, 50% more hp with the LS

Should have left it alone!!!

@@Gothamauto Fuck those LS s !! Goddamn piece of aluminum ingot a d plastic!!!!

@Aeternalis Armentarius Actually I have the FiTech unit. EZ EFI is just what sticks in my head. 1200hp boost capable unit. If you like the FI Tech unit I'll trade you it for a Holley system. It has less then 1k miles on it. The new holley systems cost the same as this did.

quatre5555 they put in breaking oil first. If that helps lol

quatre5555 I’m sure this wasn’t all done in one day

Check out uncle Tony’s garage or Nick’s garage

Hell no

Anybody wanna buy a flat small block Chevy cam..slightly used?

Royal Purple BIO is great stuff! ;)

Breaking in a new cam with a new fuel injection system trying to learn its tuning is a real challenge. I guess the cam only needed to last long enough for a couple of beauty shots and some wheel spin.

Yeah I was wondering about the cam break in? Lol

Maybe the breakin oil helped ?

I don't know about that, it's a very lazy lobe but I wish they would have dynoed before and after to see how much power you loose for $4000.00 +. Those cam specs are pathetic and should not be needed for any decent modern day EFI.

They prob do their break ins off camera

Ok! Your installing a fuckin fancy ass port fuel injection unit. Yet it can't handle the "lumpy" cam that's in it?! Wtf?! Too sensitive??!!

It's a 2 piece timing cover

@@marshdonald1134 looks like a one piece cover to me. they do a lot of things here we don't hear about, because they want us to think the changeover is easier than it really is.

You can get the cover out but not back in with out triming the timeing cover bottom lip were the oil pan gasket is

@@crankychicken1151 yep thats true, but not without a lot of Permatex Ultra Black silicone gasket maker, and hope for the best.

Why? What makes stock so great?

Dave Micolichek thank you for this info. Very helpful. I appreciate it

such a good drag conversion car

@@maxwelllevy5760 They're lovely. Then again I don't think I've met a fun car I didn't like.

Jaime Cervantes , mine has a built 327 , aluminum high rise intake , 750 cfm carb , MSD distributor and MSD multi spark box , stainless steel headers , ,steel SFI flywheel , 11 inch heavy duty clutch , M-21 Muncie 4 speed trans , 12 bolt posi Trac rear end with 4:11 gears , traction bars , rear trunk mount battery and radiator

My dad has the same car I remember when he brought it home . It was brand new and I remember it was a really hot day

Notice there was no video of them breaking in the flat tappet cam? Or adjusting the lash on the new rockers?

@@TwentytenS4B8 good point, likely because they had to do the car show. I really liked the guys on all the shows, but, the producers never understood their viewers like you who likes to see a real build or like me who wanted to learn. Like I noted, the only show that had their act together was the off road show, that guy was phenomenal.

@@paddle_shift Check out "Engine Masters" on Motor Trend On Demand. You'll learn much the right way as they dyno everything. It's only 5 bucks a month.

looks like a 2 inch at first glance

EFI is way more reliable I got almost 400 000km on my 5.7 vortec Silverado and I'm just now getting to the point we're I want upgrade the injectors as I got one getting bad. I used to own a piece of shit carbureted Chevy Silverado 5.7 and that fuckin carb was always giving me problems was always needing rides to work cause it wouldn't start. Don't remind me of if you had to go somewhere and it didn't get to warm up for 20 min in the winter time first the bitch would usually stall halfway out of the drive way or the first stop sing and block traffic and dam near flood the bitch trying to get it going again. And o how I don't miss that pos 5.7 carbureted Silverado in the winter even plugged in it was always a stubborn piece of shit I sold that 85 Silverado 4x4 tie rod and eat piece of shit manual hub solid front axle pile of shit and jumped into a 98 Z71loaded Silverado with the fuel injected 5.7 vortec and push button 4x4 I love it ten times the truck that 85 Silverado carbureted pos was and no more frozen fuckin hubs to try and turn either hell when it's -55C I make my morning coffee grab my key fob push a button and the prick starts no more having to go out and put my coffee down and fight with a shit carbureted truck and baby sit it for 15 min in the cold. Best thing I ever did was give up on carburetors and move into fuel injection never will I ever go back too a stupid carburetor ever again in my life.I did look at doing a EFI swap and a 4l80e and a locking rear end and bunch of other stuff then I seen a clean 98 Z71 loaded with way more options for a great price and thought hell I'll spend thousands apong thousands on this 85 Silverado and it'll still never be the truck that 98 Z71 is and the 98 is ready to just hop in and go so bought the 98 and sold the 85 and couldn't be happier.

@@taylorh3930 I prefer manual locking hubs tho lol

His speil about needing a smaller cam for EFI is total BS, EFI can handle much wilder cams.

@Dave Micolichek - then the logic is, get a better EFI system, not a smaller Cam.

@Dave Micolichek - compare the cost of labor to strip things down, remove old cam, fit new cam, put everything back together, plus cost of cam,... versus by a better EFI ECU. Bet the ECU is a more cost effective option once you include all the costs.

I skipped to your timestamp to see a girl with 2 mosquito bites.