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what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? #1285461
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going to use the efi intake, and put a carb on it. 2 barrel holley carb will fit lengthwise, will have to re-tap width. but what kind of problems could I expect with this combo.

Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: 72sat] #1285462
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is the vehicle a EFI vehicle? or are you swapping it into an old ride?

the only problems I see you having, is that the manifold is designed to be "dry" the stock manifold has a large open plenum, with runners that wrap up and around the intake. think dual carb, cross ram intake runner length, but wrapped up into a barrel shape. I don't know that atomized fuel will flow through that very well.

aside from that, if it's a computer controlled vehicle, it won't like that the fuel injectors don't respond anymore (unless you leave them installed and hooked up so the computer can see them "working") and the computer won't be happy that it can't see the MAP, TPS, IAC.


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sorry I did'nt explain. yes it's going in a older truck, and yes i'm leaving the injectors in.

Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: 72sat] #1285464
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Fuel Puddling most likely
I bet that beer keg makes for 1 heck of an explosion!

Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: BulletBob] #1285465
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Fuel Puddling most likely
I bet that beer keg makes for 1 heck of an explosion!




exactly!

If you did this, get a new manifold.

if you're set on using a 2bbl carb, you could pick up an M1 intake, uses the same throttle body as the stock intake, but it's a single plane, down flowing intake that would probably do better flowing "wet" air.

but, if you're going to get a new intake, you might as well get a carb intake without the injector bungs in them. I think most of them are 4bbl patterns, but I've got a 2bbl to 4bbl adapter that gives you the original TB bolt pattern


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It's been tried and it doesn't work. Reasons have been listed above.

Save yourself some trouble and either buy an intake built for the Mag bolt angles, or modify an LA intake to work. It isn't that hard.

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Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: dogdays] #1285467
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I knew using the barrel intake directly won't work for my scenario. I think where I am heading is to cut up the barrel intake use the valley tray area, flanges and water crossover and welding on intake runners up to a carb plate. basically building myself a single plane intake and since I have all the material I can do this for less than what it would take to buy and modify a LA intake or buy a Magnum intake. Besides I will leave the injectors in there because eventually I can use it for an efi setup just mount a throttle body and finish up the programming on my DIY EFI project.

I will post up some pics this weekend once I start cutting on the barrel manifold.

Chris

Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: ChristianCuda] #1285468
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It won't work. You'll see why when you start cutting up that intake. Do yourself a favor and forget this idea and just go and get yourself a proper intake manifold.

Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: DaytonaTurbo] #1285469
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You gonna send me the money for it? I am working with what I have right now it may not work it might but it will be fun to try and won't cost me much if anything. On the other hand I probably will have more cash on hand later on down the road so can change it out to see how that works then.

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We've already talked CC's project to death. The OP wanted to know if he could just slam a Holley 2-barrel on top of the FI barrel intake. That's different.

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Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: ChristianCuda] #1285471
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You gonna send me the money for it? I am working with what I have right now it may not work it might but it will be fun to try and won't cost me much if anything. On the other hand I probably will have more cash on hand later on down the road so can change it out to see how that works then.




Good luck on your project, let us know how it turns out! It would be interesting to see what you come up with.

Factory barrel style intakes aren't worth anything but scrap anyway. nobody wants them for performance builds, and every stock motor has one, so you end up tripping over them in the junk yards. hack it up and see what you can do. worst case scenario is that you take a worthless stock intake worth $5 in scrap aluminum, and end up with multiple pieces of aluminum, also worth $5 in scrap.


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Your time is worth nothing to you then I take it. Like I said, go ahead, chop up a stock intake, waste a bunch of time and end up throwing it out. That's what I think is going to happen. But please, prove me wrong and post your results.

Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: DaytonaTurbo] #1285473
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Your time is worth nothing to you then I take it.






time is always worth something, but I laugh whenever I hear someone say this trying to discourage someone from trying something.

Hobby time is Hobby time, and last I checked, NONE of us get paid for our "play time" I've done things the hard way before, simply because my wallet was empty, but I had "play time" available.


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I'm hearing (most likely won't work)(probability will puddle)does anyone have any real world experience doing this.

Re: what about putting a carb on a magnum motor? [Re: 72sat] #1285475
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Uh let's see. That intake has roughly a big freaking plenum with a big flat floor that was designed for port fuel injection that the power curve dies around 4800 rpm.
There's no designated fuel vapor distribution & would be like having the biggest tunnel ram on a bone stock engine.
Look around for the problems associated with large plenum intakes especially the Race Hemi Crossram
It has roughly the same style ports in the floor with a plenum area over each set of ports
At least with the Crossram there was a carb directly over 2 ports on each bank

That keg will give new meaning to the word PowderKeg
Don't have anyone you love around when you crank it
I'd mount the carb on thin plywood so it can be a popoff valve as well like the ProStock guys used to do.
Most of all you can bet that someone out there has tried & it didn't work or else it would already be the rage 20 years ago & every Mopar Forum on the net would have a thread on it
Good luck!

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heres another way-i once drille a stock iorn 4bbl intake and mounted it on a magnum pretty much as a joke.the joke was it worked perfectly!i used a pistil drill and drilled ont the "step" above the stock intake bolt hole(youl see what im talking about)the four corner bolts dont have these and are a little more difficult,still took only about an hour.

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Your time is worth nothing to you then I take it.






time is always worth something, but I laugh whenever I hear someone say this trying to discourage someone from trying something.

Hobby time is Hobby time, and last I checked, NONE of us get paid for our "play time" I've done things the hard way before, simply because my wallet was empty, but I had "play time" available.




There's a difference between doing something yourself, where the result you are capable of is perfectly safe, sound and functional versus doing something yourself where the result is a piece of crap that won't work and you will just have to end up throwing in the garbage.

You know what would work well on top of that magnum intake? A propane mixer, since the intake would still only be flowing gasses.

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Now I have seen that done & it works!

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thank you for real world reply. has anyone else seen or done this? I do not want to hear what you think,I want to know what you have done or seen.

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Surprised nobody mentioned how easy it is to use the junkyard PCM and harness, and keep the SMPI!

Rick

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Surprised nobody mentioned how easy it is to use the junkyard PCM and harness, and keep the SMPI!

Rick




Now where is the info on how to do this as that info is few and far between.

I would gladly keep the stock barrel intake although I understand it isn't much for about 5k rpms and for my project it needs to be able to do 5000-5500 where the valves will probably start to float. I want to get the jet bot on the water this year and over the winter tear the motor down and rebuild it with better parts need to see what the boat does as is for now.

The Op might benefit from this knowledge as well if he is using a pretty much stock system. Although I have heard a stock 360 magnum with a carb can make more power than a completely stock magnum 360 with the barrel intake and FI.

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Although I have heard a stock 360 magnum with a carb can make more power than a completely stock magnum 360 with the barrel intake and FI.




this is true. in stock form, the EFI 5.9 was rated at 345 tq and 250hp. the stock manifold is a TRUCK manifold, meant for low RPM torque/towing.

the 300hp crate engines were just a bone stock 5.9 with a carb and dual plane intake. the biggest gain is from the intake, which allows the motor to breathe up to 5-6k rpm, which is where the higher Hp comes from. carry 345 ft lbs higher into the RPM range, and you make more Hp.

the 380hp crate engine was the same bone stock 5.9 with a cam, intake and carb. My truck is a near copy of that motor, I'm running a hughes whiplash cam 222/228 @ .050, .544 lift and 106LSA (with their 1110 springs, retainers, etc), plus a stock TB ported to 50mm (stock has 50mm plates, but necks down to 47mm just above the plates), and the single plane, MPFI M1 intake; I made 281-285 rwhp, which puts me right up at that 360-380 crank hp mark.


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Um, Information is far and few between? If you followed Rick's Savoy project(Mopar Action), you'd see how EASY it was.....I was tempted to do it and yes IT WAS THAT EASY. The information is out there folks, and really, it isn't that hard to find. And junk yard SMPI 5.9's(360)are as cheap as small block GM's (last time I went looking, it was intake to pan for $550).


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easy to find I am pretty damn good at google searches and havent had Mopar Rag in a while since I had to sell the Cuda. Now 8 years later I am building this Chrysler Jet Boat the injection would be cool to have and I have tried to find it. I will see what i can do about the back issues of mopar action.

The search function here doesn't always give you what you need without sifting through a weeks worth of posts.

I picked up my complete MPI 5.9 for $100 with two burnt valves. Had everything but the wiring harness and PCM and flywheel.

This is the most information I have found in the last few months of searching besides a fellow mopar manic sharing with me that i can use a 93 pcm since they didn't tie into the trans. buit it has to be a 93 from a 5.9 because i couldn't find where to get it reflashed. I go to the dealer and ask an they cant do anything without a vin and I have a brother in law that works at a dealer.

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I'm trying to make an OBD-2 harness work with a 99 magnum 5.2. I've basically got the wiring figured out, but haven't gotten to the point where I can hit the key yet. If that doesn't end up working well I can try to find an easier to work with OBD-1 computer/harness. If you're only going to be running a stock or near stock motor, that's all you need.

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Surprised nobody mentioned how easy it is to use the junkyard PCM and harness, and keep the SMPI!

Rick


Not to steal the thread but lets say i have a 98 engine trans and the engine bay harness. could i just use another computer from a 5.9 or does it all have to be from the same engine?

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any V8 computer will work. sorta.

I should say, if you currently have a 5.9L auto combo, any 5.2/5.9 computer out of a truck with an automatic will work. but look for a non-security PCM. otherwise it'll fire, run for 3 seconds, then the PCM kills the injectors because it doesn't "see" the correct body computer and thinks it's being stolen or something.

otherwise match the number of cylinders and type of transmission, and you're good to go.

but, if you are re-programing the computer like with SCT (sorry DaytonaTurbo!!) then you can use any 3.9/5.2/5.9 computer and simply load the program on it for your set-up.

Or if you know someone at a dealer, they can hook you up with a factory re-flash of the computer, which will overwrite EVERYTHING. they can turn a security PCM into a non-security PCM, a 3.9V6 stick shift to a 5.9V8 auto.


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Surprised nobody mentioned how easy it is to use the junkyard PCM and harness, and keep the SMPI!

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Not to steal the thread but lets say i have a 98 engine trans and the engine bay harness. could i just use another computer from a 5.9 or does it all have to be from the same engine?




96-up: If everything remains stock (fuel pressure, injectors, etc.) the computer should be for the same displacement as the engine you're using. If the computer is from at A.T. truck, you must have a "RE" trans (electronic gov.) or it will go into limp (pulls back spark). The fix? Just use a M.T. computer.

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Rick, there's been more than one guy who's run a 5.9 on a 5.2 tune--stock for stock. the open loop tune (WOT) is so rich, that a stock 5.2 tune does just fine with a 5.9, especially when you consider that the 5.2 has a bigger cam than the 5.9, and that their actual power output is only about 25 hp apart from each other. then when the computer goes into closed loop, it's reading the AFR through the O2 sensors in the exhaust, and will automatically tweak the fuel trims to keep it from going lean.

I'm not saying that it's "right" or that the computers are the same, only that it can be done without hurting anything and will get you up and running


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Rick, there's been more than one guy who's run a 5.9 on a 5.2 tune--stock for stock. the open loop tune (WOT) is so rich, that a stock 5.2 tune does just fine with a 5.9, especially when you consider that the 5.2 has a bigger cam than the 5.9, and that their actual power output is only about 25 hp apart from each other. then when the computer goes into closed loop, it's reading the AFR through the O2 sensors in the exhaust, and will automatically tweak the fuel trims to keep it from going lean.

I'm not saying that it's "right" or that the computers are the same, only that it can be done without hurting anything and will get you up and running




At light throttle, all the adaptives have gotta be nearly maxed out.

True, they were all pig rich at WOT to save the cat. Add a few bolt-ons (bigger TB, headers, bigger exhaust, etc.) and you wind up close to 12.5:1. In fact, one engineer told me that the cal was rich to "cover" the possibility of someone running a car with an exhaust that had fallen off just past the "Y".

Rick

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I don't know how far the PCM can swing to adjust the tune for closed loop, part throttle tune, I don't think SCT can tweak anything but timing tables when it goes into closed loop, but I'll have to run that by the guy I use to write the programs.

but my modified 5.9 that makes 285rwhp cruises at 14.7 AFR in closed loop mode, and is running stock injectors, pump, computer, etc. the only thing adjusted there is the program on the PCM via SCT.


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especially when you consider that the 5.2 has a bigger cam than the 5.9,



I am about to hijack this thread one more time but a quick question would it be wise to use a 5.2 cam in a 5.9 for more power since it has a bigger cam? I was under the impression that the cams were the same.

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If you have a 5.2 cam sitting around, yea, it should give a modest bump in Hp/tq over the stock 5.9 cam. but I wouldn't pay any money for a 5.2 cam. if I was going to pay money, I'd just buy a "real" cam.


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I can get a good used one for about $25 so might go that route just for some fun. Between that and milling the heads .040 will make a nice motor for the Chrysler jet boat to see how well the Chrysler designed Jet reacts to it. Don't want to bump up the power too much over stock because I am not sure it will even be usable power.

Thanks again if we ever met up i will have to buy you a cold one.

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CC is your jet drive made for a 70's small block? Because if so, even a bone stock 5.2 magnum will make way more power than the original engine in front of that thing.

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CC is your jet drive made for a 70's small block? Because if so, even a bone stock 5.2 magnum will make way more power than the original engine in front of that thing.



It originally had a marine 340 rated at 250hp. The marine 440s were only rated at 330HP.
I am not sure what this Chrysler designed Jet will take regarding HP though so not wanting to go too big on it until I get a chance to test it out on the water. There are not too many of them around and not too many people hot rodding the ones they do have. I have been told that it probably won't take much more than I will get out of this stock 360 magnum by some people that know the normal jets Berkley's and Jacuzzi's saying its design is similar to a specific Jacuzzi that just wont take much HP without major modification and even then is not worth much more and has its limitations.

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