Quote Originally Posted by whabamdo View Post
Sorry, I'm not a mehcanic at alll. I'm just getting into this.
"With a wet sump oiling system, there is only so far you can go out of plumb anyway."
not sure what this means, but I'm assuming with a vortec motor you wouldn't be able to fuel that much hp?
What I was saying is that with a wet sump system, which is what you have, the bulk of the amount of oil in the motor is put into the oil pan, then sucked out by the pump and distributed within the motor. When the oil has done its job, it runs back down into the oil pan to be picked up again by the pump to do it all again. With oil just sitting in the pan, you cannot lean the motor very far one way or the other left to right or very much to the front or rear without uncovering the oil pickup in the oil pan, so that the oil pump begins to suck air. Once that happens, it's only a very short time to the end of the ball game with a seized-up motor.

It just sounds like to me that the Q-Jet would be ideal from a performance and cost standpoint.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.....
"I'm assuming with a vortec motor you wouldn't be able to fuel that much hp"

Our Tucson associate said he spent $3200 for his EFI system. To each his own, but to me, that is unacceptable. You have to remember though, I'm CHEAP.