Jeep Strokers

Building my yj now. I want it to be as simple as possible. The only things I wanna keep are lights, turn signals, and maybe a radio. Has anyone else dumped the fuel injection system and gone to a carb? What's the easiest way to get the thing sparking once I do?

I am building a calm 4.6 or maybe 4.7 BTW.

I'm building a carburated 4.6 stroker for a 1936 Dodge of all things. But, I'm running a clifford intake and split headers & I've talked to Summit Racing and they have a HEI distributor that they say will work with a 96 4.0 but still looking into that. 270 Isky cam, KB pistons. It will be interesting to keep up with your thread.

I have seen a HESCO 4.7L STROKER that was all mechanical and sported an aluminum head! I should have bought that engine.

YEP!, the class that my dad races in requires a straight six and a 1BBL carburetor!, for ignition just run the AMC/Jeep/Ford "DURA SPARK" distributor with a GM HEI 4 pin modual, or if you can find one get a coil in cap HEI out of a Chivy six and put the AMC gear on it (the cams turn the other direction so the gears are pitched the other way) and you'll be good to go!

Thanks a lot. This will make life much easier for me.

I have a quadrajet on mine - goes good. Stock '73 AMC 258 dizzy (delco) with pertronix. An hei would be simpler tho like IH 392 said. The dizzy gear is cheap too IIRC.

I built a hipo slant six for a friend of mine and we used a clifford intake with a Holley 450 cfm 4 bbl. A 282" Jeep stroker engine at 5500 RPM with 83% VE works out to right around 450 CFM.

So what about modifying a 4.0 intake to accept a 4 bbl. I am talking like making the inital bore larger and mounting the carb up a little higher, I atually have some 1/2 thick ALm thats about 6" wide by 2.5" long I can cut up. Too bad I already sold my other 258 intake and HEI dizzy. What size carb would I be looking for if I have a 4.6 and stock cam.

one of the guys on jeep forum has his set up that way.


i have a 450 holley on mine with an offenhauser intake and it works great