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Old 01-22-05, 01:21 PM
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Holley gurus....

Since I'm cheap (and have a big money sucking project), I'm going to put a holley 600 on my 12A.

I don't need a manifold, as I have an aluminum spacer, and can simply weld it up to the existing manifold.

What I am looking for are jet suggestions. This is a box stock Holley 4160 singe feed carby. I'm going to go ahead and rebuild it, and since it'll be open, I figured I could at least get it close to the jetting it will need.

Exhaust system is a DIY header, 2" piping duals back to the axle, into a collector, 3" over, into a muff. The duals have individual bullet silencers on them, dynomax 3" muff.

What kind of jets do I need?

Oh yea, any way to keep the oil injection? Maybe weld a nipple or 2 onto the intake manifold, or what?
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my guess is that you will lose power puting the holley on the nikki manifold. Doesn't sound too great for flow to me, even with a decent spacer. As far as the jets, i'd start at 65's in the front and read the plugs/rejet from there. You might just want to bite the bullet on this one and buy a decent manifold.

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I may end up buying a mani if I can find one used/cheap. I'll be swapping a 302 in this thing in the next 4-5 months, so I don't wanna toss to much cash in the garbage.

The stock nikki that is on there is in need of a complete refurbishing... maybe I can do a few tricks to it myself and simply get by with that.

Other idea is that I can weld up the mani and port it accordingly so that it would be a smooth transition from the holley, that might work as well no?
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