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I'm looking at pulling a motor from a '95 Mustang. I plan on running the motor completely stock with some headers. What size carb would you guys recommend? Would a 500cfm be fine or would that choke the engine? Would a 600cfm be fine or would it be too large?

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Engine is already set up for EFI, why ruin a good thing by adding junk like a carb?
 
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What he said? My guess is that you are afraid of the wiring.
 

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No, the car I'm pulling it out of has already had most of the wiring stripped

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500 is fine, plan to tune it down.

Out of the box my Edelbrock 1403 was too rich for my HO, I had to rod and jet it down.

It is crazy what some people think an engine needs...

If you have the manifolds and injectors I would seriously consider finding the harness and computer and leaving it injected though.
 

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Okay, thanks. I'll look at the car and see what's there. I don't want to put too large of a carb on it, and I couldn't get a straight answer from reading other threads.

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I'm running a autolite 2150 2 barrel on my daily b2 with a stock 302, think its around 370cfm. great carb but it does run out of volume above 4700rpm.
 
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summit has a carb size page it says a 302 at 5500 rpms
408.52 cfm street or 528 cfm for racing I would go to a 600. I would do a dual plane intake
 
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