opinions pls MegaSquirt down the road, What should stay, what should go Options

[cgnj]

Hi,

This is regarding the 73 that I purchased for my son.
It appears to have been a 2.0 appearance group car that is currently sporting a W code 1.7, (claimed to be 1.8) pulling 125-135 in all holes.
I have a complete GA motor with FI to donate to this car. FI condition is unknown.
Have running 1.8 with Ljet.
Have 76 2270 with 45 Dells.
Will hold one motor.
Looking down the road, I'd like to Mega Squirt or Kit Carlson the 2270 at some point.

Which motor stays, which goes?

Carlos

[Mueller]

Jeff,

let's take Megasquirt out of the picture for moment.....

what needs to be answered is what is the most aggresive cam that a Type IV can use most effectively regardless of Fuel Managment....

"aggresive cam" is somewhat misleading, since a certain profile might be perfect for one application, yet lousy for another......

in my opinion, there is not a cam out there that would work with a carb, yet not work with Megasquirt one way or another....worse case would be that you'd have to switch MS over from MAP based to Alpha-N for the most bad-ass, non-streetable cam.....

any cam you pick for a street/mild race motor, Megasquirt will work as is.......

to me, the limitations will be the motor itself and the combination of parts like Jake is always stressing

if the rod ratio is incorrect or valves too small or whatever, you won't be able to fully take advantage of the cam.....fuel managment is secondary to a proper combination of internal parts........