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Jun 4, 2004 | 04:05 PM

double barrel

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to carb or not to carb that is the question

i want to put a 465 cfm racing beat holley carb in my car, good ? bad? ugly? what do you think? if you have done it how was it? what have you heard? general advice ? I have leaking injectors and my bleed off valve will only last me so long.

Jun 4, 2004 | 04:17 PM

elfking

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Re: to carb or not to carb that is the question

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Originally posted by double barrel
i want to put a 465 cfm racing beat holley carb in my car, good ? bad? ugly? what do you think? if you have done it how was it? what have you heard? general advice ? I have leaking injectors and my bleed off valve will only last me so long.

You could have those leaky injectors cleaned/flow tested to remove that problem. That would take care of any flooding problems if they are there...

http://www.cruzinperformance.com/

Rich does great work, with a great turnaround time. Of course a good price too.

Jun 4, 2004 | 06:37 PM

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unless you are building a drag car, there is not point replacing the fuel injection system with a carb. You loose too much daily driveability and will be needing to retune the carb for cold and warm weather.

In addition, cleaning the injectors is light years cheaper than replacing the entire intake manifold, CAS, and all the other assorted work that a real conversion would require.