E street kit or LS?

[Kane]

I am really torn on my motor choice for my Scrambler project. I have a Chevy 350 that I built a few years ago and it is currently in my CJ5 . I do not want a V8 in my 5 anymore and plan to do a full stock restore on it someday. The CJ8 is full on restomod so anything goes within budget of course. The Chevy 350 is built very solid and I did a lot of work to the lower end to make it a very bullet proof mill. I spent a fair amount of cash on it over the years in the $5000 range. Well with the Scrambler I want a V8 with good power but the 350 sucks the gas like a college kid and a funnel at a party.
SO I have two options that I am entertaining. Keep the 350 that I spent so much time on and drop another $2000 on the new Edelbrock E street fuel injection system. This could net me some better gas mileage, keep the power and give me much better driveability. It is is completely tune-able and auto adjusts it's own fuel mixture. ORRRRR.

I can go with an LS v8 5.3l and have a great mill but the costs for purchase and all the new technology parts will really add up the conversion costs. I will have about the same horsepower and it will definitely give me better gas mileage but how much I don't know.

So if this was your options what would you plan to do? Keep in mind I still need some money to build the rest of the Jeep and it is not just a motor swap.

 

[Old Dog]

I vote would be the E-street, you already have the 350 and know it's built right.
I'd really like to know how well it works as it seems like a really nice up-grade.

 

[Kane]

Yeah and the blue tooth display programmer is damn cool which costs extra though. I would love to have that feature.

 

[CJ]

This is in my box for my 401 build... Can't talk about the tuneability but I'm sure it will be a big improvement!

 

[gert]

This is in my box for my 401 build... Can't talk about the tuneability but I'm sure it will be a big improvement!

:drool: oh you suck I am so jealous, and here I am trying to gp TBI

 

[CJ]

:drool: oh you suck I am so jealous, and here I am trying to gp TBI

I have a TBI Pro-Jection on my 390 - it works great! I just decided that my 401 will be built all out! Edelbrock aluminum heads and sequential fuel injection...

 

[thiswontbetooexpensive]

I have a TBI Pro-Jection on my 390 - it works great! I just decided that my 401 will be built all out! Edelbrock aluminum heads and sequential fuel injection...

I had a chance to read CJ's build thread the other day. I guess this is the part about money and time swapping for someone with a few years under the belt?

Nice parts by the way :drool:

 

[CJ]

I had a chance to read CJ's build thread the other day. I guess this is the part about money and time swapping for someone with a few years under the belt?

Nice parts by the way :drool:

Unfortunately I have more parts than time...

It is what it is...

 

[Kane]

I love my edelbrock heads. That fuel injection is sweet but big $$. Maybe the fuel injection and an Overdrive will be the right ticket.

 

[Petescj]

You really need to take a vacation from that thing you call a job and start using some of those parts.

This is in my box for my 401 build... Can't talk about the tuneability but I'm sure it will be a big improvement!