a friend of mine just bought a beater 87 EA82 sedan (SPFI & D/R) for $280 and we're making a wheeler out of it.

 

thing is, most of the SPFI system is mia so we decided we want to put one of my old mopar 2bbl carbs on it. one is a '62 Stromberg from my Dart and the other is a Carter BBD off an '85 318 truck - i'll probably go with the Carter for it's lack of wear and availability of parts.

 

according to the cfm calculator at 4secondsflat.com (using 5500 for redline and 80% for volumetric efficiency) i get a demand of ~405cfm for a Dodge 318 and ~140cfm for an EA82. i'd GUESS the Carter is flowing in the mid to high 300's, well over double the carb needed.

 

now the ?'s:

 

is that too over-carbed without other mods besides gutting the exhaust?

 

we need to grab another intake (looks like somebody got mad at this one...) so which one should i get? SPFI or carb'ed? i'm thinking i want to make an adapter that will lift the carb up and allow it to be oriented correctly but honestly i've never seen a bare EA82 carb'ed intake so i don't know what the carb pad on those looks like or the differences.

 

are all carb'ed EA82 distributors the same?

 

how hard is it to convert an auto choke to manual?

 

does any of this sound reasonable or am i trippin balls?

 

 

 

I had a Ford 2 barrel from a 351M on my EA82 for a while, the carb manifold sucks for making an adapter for anything other than a Weber. I would find a SPFI manifold because it will be way easier to make an adapter for.

 

Everyone else is gonna say make it SPFI again, or get a Weber, but Im down with the obscure oddball carb stuff

 

I believe there are still 2 types of disty for the EA82, Hitachi and Nippendenso, and you will have to do some re-wiring to make a SPFI car run right with a Carb. It might actually be easier to just put the SPFI back together in this case, unless you have a carbed donor car to pull all the electrical parts from.

 

-Bill