Another 87 YJ build (my 3rd one)

Jody Treadway said:
Dang ol' thing got dem GT40 heads and intake. Makes purt near 500 horses on pump gas
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It’s the gt40 heads and factory mpfi intake with ev6 injectors, parts availability due to proliferation, and anything with mustang in the name carries a certain TAX so 5.0 mustang motor is reserved for the Buffalo Trace drinking crowd. Mod motors are too wide and don’t rebuild well
 
Shreddinlettuce said:
It’s the gt40 heads and factory mpfi intake with ev6 injectors, parts availability due to proliferation, and anything with mustang in the name carries a certain TAX so 5.0 mustang motor is reserved for the Buffalo Trace drinking crowd. Mod motors are too wide and don’t rebuild well
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Plus the accessory drive on the Explorer 5.0 is nice and compact.
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
since we have already derailed the thread...

I have wondered about building adapters that allowed factory LS injection & ignition components to be used on other engines. The more I have thought about it, I feel like it wouldnt really end up much different that running an MPFI setup from Holley/Edelbrock/etc on the same engine. Thoughts? & maybe there is more to the LS that makes it work like it does, than just the EFI system.
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I took a decent look at running my Mopar 340 with an LS computer. There was a guy on moparts.org that was deeper into it than I ever went. The hardest part would be incorporating the crank trigger wheel. I had a wheel that I looked at mounting to the balancer, but the diameters were going to make it tricky and I didnt think I'd be able to get it to run true enough once I welded to to a spacer behind the crank pulley. Once I found a readily available 36-1 wheel and sensor mount, I went microsquirt and batch fire using info from the sloppy mechanics fairmont builds. The 24x ecus use a 1x cam signal that you can get with a distributor and some grinding. The rest is just wiring.

My build does use LS coils, TB, and GM sensors throughout.
 
mcconnell said:
I took a decent look at running my Mopar 340 with an LS computer. There was a guy on moparts.org that was deeper into it than I ever went. The hardest part would be incorporating the crank trigger wheel. I had a wheel that I looked at mounting to the balancer, but the diameters were going to make it tricky and I didnt think I'd be able to get it to run true enough once I welded to to a spacer behind the crank pulley. Once I found a readily available 36-1 wheel and sensor mount, I went microsquirt and batch fire using info from the sloppy mechanics fairmont builds. The 24x ecus use a 1x cam signal that you can get with a distributor and some grinding. The rest is just wiring.

My build does use LS coils, TB, and GM sensors throughout.
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Outside of an old build that was done when easy access to aftermarket ECUs wasn't a thing, why would you do that now ?
Just get a dual sync and be done.
 
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