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Has anyone carbed a LS engine for their Miata conversion?

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Old 07-28-2010, 07:26 PM
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Default Has anyone carbed a LS engine for their Miata conversion?

Has anyone carbed a LS engine to cut down on the wiring headache? Seems like the physically getting the engine/drivetrain into the Miata would be the easy part. Wiring is the main thing that concerns me about my future swap.

Anyone on here carbed the LS? Thoughts?
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Wiring is the fun part.
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lol The wiring is the part that I'm dreading the most. I've done a few minor wiring jobs in my day, and it wasn't pretty. I've looked at a couple swap pages that had wiring info and I took a glance and went to another page because it was giving me a headache just thinking about doing it.
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The wiring is not bad, and you'll have about as much going the carb route as you would the EFI route.
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There is nothing wrong with carbing an LS. Your total engine height will likely increase. It may not fit under the hood. I wish that I had fuel injection on my SB 327.
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I keep seeing people say that the wiring is not that bad. I'll do a little more research. Or maybe I'll just grow a pair and stop searching for easy way outs.
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