final prep for vortec head swap

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Hey it's your money bud. I'm just trying to help. .. just know idle and driving under 1500rpm will not be so good:( idle mainly.
anyhoo best off luck to ya bud.

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While mine wasn't a single plane, I had a air gap high rise and it kills your bottom end. Works really good if you want to cruise down the highway in 2nd gear at 4500 RPMs. Just don't disregard the advice is all. Give craigslist a leak. You can probably trade yours for a performer. I just traded a junk edelbrock carb for a performer intake. Didn't cost me anything. You want be unhappy with your current one, because you won't know the difference. You will just be happier with a duel plane.


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Crap I quoted the wrong post lol


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Your truck will hate a single plane and will be a bit gutless down low. You will sacrifice more low and mid than you will gain in the top end. To make a single plane work, you need a lot more cam and a lot more stall. And more gear too.
 

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i know the intake isnt the best. but lets ignore that for now. i have to either swap to electric fuel pump or get a cam with the mech fuel pump lobe on it.

so im just going with the electric pump, leaving the cam alone, and swaping straight up.

i remember reading something about leaving the mech pump and just adding the electric one. the mech pump currently installed is from advance auto.

are the replacement fuel pumps the flow through type?
 

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just find a fuel pump block off plate...

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Even if you did save the 5 bucks on not getting a block-off plate, you wouldn't run the fuel through the non-op fuel pump. You would just run the line from the electric pump to the carb (with a filter of course).
 

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Even if you did save the 5 bucks on not getting a block-off plate, you wouldn't run the fuel through the non-op fuel pump. You would just run the line from the electric pump to the carb (with a filter of course).

gotcha the vortec came with a block off plate anyways
 

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