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Hey, watch it! 140-160

posted by  someone claiming to be Charles Greenlaw on  Wed Feb 12 16:14 CST 2003 [RELATED]

...I've got an old Ford. Its original carb has worked superbly for me for 35 years, and it would for you too, provided it's installed on the model of old Ford it was built for. Otherwise, forget it. No user adaptability to an engine of much different size or different number of cylinders drawing off each throat.

Of course Holley adapted the carb used on the last Ford flathead V8s for use on air cooled VWs, but it was not done with just a screwdriver. The thing was redesigned professionally. That leaves us with the carbs built for limited production cars and which have lots of user-changeable calibration parts. These include SU and Weber carbs, both of which, depending on whose opinion it is, are junk. Such a pity.





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New Okay, alternative to DCOEs... [140-160]
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