95 Chevrolet K1500 5.7 TBI to Carb Swap

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Thinking about ditching the EFI and swapping to a carb, my only setback is the 4L60e. As far as I know the only things I need is a Holley carb and throttle position sensor kit, HEI distributor, matching intake for heads and carb (edelbrock performer 2104) and a fuel pressure regulator with the match lines and I'm good? I heard to make the 4L60e shift you need to splice into a few wires that were off the TBI distributor and wire it into the HEI's battery and tach port and it's all good to go, but need confirmation and any tips or things I'm missing.
 

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I think you would need to get a stand alone computer for the transmission.

Why do you want to remove the EFI? It’s much more superior in every way over a carb.
 

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Id rather have a carb than the stock tbi. I would swap heads while your at it. A set of vortec heads, 750 mechanical secondary carb and a edelbrock rpm air gap intake will double the hp of the stock tbi and still be great driver.
My 68 C10 was a std bore 91 vette shortblock with a stock lt1 cam, mild ported vortec heads, a 830hp mechanical secondary carb, msd 6al box, msd dist, coil, msd 8.5 superconductor wires and it made 429hp and bout same tq. It had a th350 and 3.73 gears and still would do 16-18mpg average.
 

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Good to see you came over... tonnes of great advice all ready and not one response on the other site.

I like to upgrade with stock parts and likewise would fix what is broken...

This is not my area of expertise so I will leave it to the experts.

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I think you would need to get a stand alone computer for the transmission.

Why do you want to remove the EFI? It’s much more superior in every way over a carb.
Not superior in the fact that you got to bust out to get them to run right and figure out how to tune them and figure out what keeps going wrong every other day. A carb, I can bolt on and twist a few screws and I’m good to go.
 
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Id rather have a carb than the stock tbi. I would swap heads while your at it. A set of vortec heads, 750 mechanical secondary carb and a edelbrock rpm air gap intake will double the hp of the stock tbi and still be great driver.
My 68 C10 was a std bore 91 vette shortblock with a stock lt1 cam, mild ported vortec heads, a 830hp mechanical secondary carb, msd 6al box, msd dist, coil, msd 8.5 superconductor wires and it made 429hp and bout same tq. It had a th350 and 3.73 gears and still would do 16-18mpg average.
I would do all that if I could get some advice on this trans and carb swap first.
 
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Good to see you came over... tonnes of great advice all ready and not one response on the other site.

I like to upgrade with stock parts and likewise would fix what is broken...

This is not my area of expertise so I will leave it to the experts.

Al
I do have an issue with fuel injection that I may try to fix but I’m bout sick of messing with it lol so that’s why I want to carb swap it
 

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I do have an issue with fuel injection that I may try to fix but I’m bout sick of messing with it lol so that’s why I want to carb swap it

If you post another thread about that issue we can probably help you get to the bottom of it. There's a lot of smart TBI people here. Which is one of the reasons you're going to get so much flak for considering a carb swap. Lots of members here (myself included) would consider that a huge step backwards.

EDIT - Looks like you beat me to it. :lol: Hope you get it figured out!
 
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