daily driver street carb for mild bbc

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#41 · Aug 26, 2013

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get your timing and VA sorted out first!!!!!!!!!!then decide

 

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1966_L78

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#42 · Aug 28, 2013

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BigChevyFTW said:

"Don't waste your time or your money on an Edelbrock carb"
In my experience of tuning both eddies and Holley's The Edelbrock carbs Don't even come close to the Holley's ease of tuning and don't let me mention how hard it is to get an Edelbrock carb to start an engine when its cold. You'll have to pump it like 20 times compared to the Holley needing only 1 or 2 pumps and that's a fact!

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I never have to pump any of my Edelbrocks more than once, even "dead cold" after sitting for several months... Once they fire, they keep running (with no throttle input from my foot), despite my disabling of the choke mechanism.

I think this is the biggest "negative" issue with Edelbrocks, people just don't know how to tune them like many know how to tune a Holley, and they aren't used to them.

 

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#43 · Aug 28, 2013

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Tell you what, as a guy who loves his double pumpers, I happened into two new 770 Street Avengers a couple of months ago playing Pawn Stars (yes, I got the original receipts). I dropped on my Jeep 6.0 LS2, and I could not be happier with the way this thing runs, and more importantly to some, how it sips fuel.

It seemed last month with the AED 650 Eliminator it was going through a tank every 150 miles or so. Granted the Jeep has a sorry excuse for a tannk (14 gal), but just pulling the turb in and out was running it out of fuel. I let it sit for a week while I updated a few things and now I put just over 250 miles and still has 1/4 tank. And more inportantly, it punished those 35s when the need for smoke arrises. And that AED is a strong running carb.

But for ease of use? Eddys are pretty close on mild builds if you aren't the kind of guy to tinker. Many a mild 350 has left with a 1406 out the box, setting the choke, idle, and mixure screws without ever opening it up.