Why Carb and non OD a Gen 3?

standup303 said

I have always been curious about doing a gen 3 swap but I feel majority I see ditch the factory injection for a carb or throttle body and slap in a 727? Isn’t the whole point of swapping to a newer gen setup to have easier to tune fuel injection and an overdrive transmission?

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I agree, seems like tossing out several of the advantages of a G3 to not use the EFI and OD.

But I think people see the HP of the new Hemi and want that, without the added complexity of EFI or an electronic OD trans.

Add that as far as I know, the only way to run a carb is to use a 6.1 or an '08 and older 5.7 as there isn't an ignition box that will run the later 5.7/6.4 at least with the stock crank tone wheel. So that also removes the option for VVT. Most people seem to run a big enough cam that VVT has to be locked out anyway, but (to me) VVT is one of the reasons I want to run a G3.

And running a carb also means losing the long runner intake and potentially SRV tech.

But even with all that, they still have the advantages of good cylinder heads, higher compression, coil on plug and a crank position sensor instead of a distributor, plus a stiffer block.