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this is the shortest one that I could find

One could use the lower and fabricate a log upper. It probably wouldn't be any shorter or make more power, but it should look a lot better. Hmmmmm

The T Bird FI unit on the 5.0 93 and down is about 1.5 inches shorter than that of a mustang GT.

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Then use a 4 barrel throttle body or an elbow to a single throttle body.

I'm using a T-bird intake to a single throttle body. Planning on extrude honing the intake later. Also using EDIS from an Explorer hooked up to Megasquirt.

I wish someone in the aftermaket would make a tuned port efi like the GM units, but I haven't seen any except homemade.

If you can find a weber intake there's starting to be some reasonably priced weber type throttle bodies. Not sure if the right size, but the Hybusa throttle bodies seem to be easy to change the spacing to accommodate different manifolds. Just depends on your budget, how much fab work you're willing to do, and matching it to your power range.

Rod

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12,000+ enthusiastic miles as of 1/1/11
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and a 1963 Nova SS

I'm using a 351 here is what I'm using, Professional Products intake setup for EFI which is a copy of the Victor. The throttle body adapter is a Sullivan which uses a Cobra oval TB wh8ich I will point to the back.

NICE!! It looks 100 percent better than stock and will probably flow better (At least on the top end) too. Given that our cars will have so much trouble putting the power to the ground with a V8, it makes sense to spread the powerband instead of leaving it biased to the down-low.

I believe R1 315 35 17s will help too.

How about the Nissan VH45DE?

Here's a wiki on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_VH_engine

Some notables:
Aluminum block and heads
4valve/cyl DOHC
Variable Valve timing
Forged crank and rods
6 bolt mains
Sodium exhaust valves
6900 rpm redline

You can grab a running older Q45 for 1000-2000. Nevermind what a donor would cost.

Don't forget the all-time favorite...

HILLBORN!




They can be done relatively cheap if you shop around.

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Hillborn injection can be added to most V8s at a resonable cost. The stack length can be changed to increase hood clearance.
The setup shown above is a bit shorter than a carburetor on the typical intake manifold.

Standard fuel injectors and associated gear can be used from the donor motor in most cases.
If all else fails, a machinist with a tig welder would whip one up with limited effort.

Mechanical injection can be used as well. It's great for race cars but harder to tune for street use.



Personally, I can't get enough of the "drunk" stacks.

The ????????????? were re. cost. I would love this setup but it would be more than I intend to put into the whole car.

I have been seriously considering this for my W196 build.
Owning machine tools can give one a sense of super human abilities until the chips start flying.
Since I wanted to use a fuel injected engine the thought was to build my own intake.
A simple pan will cover the lifter valley just like my 440. Fabbing up each side of the intake would be much easier. I could even do them individually.

Buying the bells isn't too painful. Used setups can be had reasonably. Buying new kinda blows the whole Locost approach.

It is simple enough to add TB stacks to a modular, with a separate water crossover. No valley pan needed. One TB can have a TPS for the EEC/Squirt/etc.

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360LA 442E: 134.5x46x15
Lotus7:115x39x7.25
Tiger Avon:114x40x13.3-12.6
Champion/Book:114x42x11
Gibbs/Haynes:122x42x14
VoDou:113x44x14
McSorley 442:122x46x14
Collins 241:127x46x12

For reference, I just bought a Gen IV GM 5.3L truck engine for $700 with 61k miles on it. The one shop I went to had at least 6 of them at or below this price level. I plan on swapping to a car intake ($60) and oilpan ($150) and adding a bigher performance cam (used for abotu $80). Other people have built very similar combinations and put out over 325HP. The block is iron, but I'm not too concerned about the weight. It was well worth it for the price.

Ken