Racing beat holley carb setup running poorly
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Racing beat holley carb setup running poorly
I just got an 88 with the racing beat carb setup. The car is using the stock ecu for spark. The car is slower than an EFI setup by a longshot. I read somewhere that a bracket is supposed to be fabbed for the TPS but am not sure about it. It has a fuel pressure regulator also. What could I be missing here? I thought this setup was supposed to be faster then stock EFI.
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i switched over to a 4bbl carb set-up with an edelbrock 600cfm carb with a racing beat manifold . While it feels more powerful up top , you lose too much low and mid-range power . I gave the car to my cousin and we are switching back to the stock fuel injection . Carb might be good for a track car but as a daily driver we found it to be a headache , anyway good luck with your set-up i hope it works out for you ... if not you can always go back to stock efi or stand alone efi .
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Originally Posted by eddierotary
i have one and i dont like it at all, plus it doesnt run right with stock CAS, you have to downgrade to a 81-85 rx7 dizzy in order to get it running right, my self im changing to fuel injection again because is a total mistake changing it
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You would think that without the TPS being hooked up the spark would be timed incorrectly because the ECU doesent know whats going on. What is involved in switching to 81-85 dizzy?
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TPS controls the fuel sistem on the FI, doesnt control the timing, the timing is control by the RPM, A/F ratio and vaccum. other than that the ecu set the spark as stock settings, you just have to go from that and move the CAS until the car runs better, but in my opinion and is how it worked on my car the 81-85 dizzy work better that CAS
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I may get scolded fore saying this, but i believe if you tune a carb correctly and run a Dizzy with some mods to it, you can actually gain some power and maintain some driveability. I know that RB sells them with the implemented description that it is ideal for our vehicles, but in the carb tuning i have done on older cars amd/or helped with, its al about the jetting/tuning, i bet you could get it pretty much to your liking if you tweaked it correctly. It is easier to switch to stock EFI, but i personally dislike the stock ecu, it is great in its simplicity though. If there is a problem with it, it is probably not tuned ideally for your particular car. just my thought on the subject.
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Im going to mess with the car today. The guy I bought it from said he messed with the carb trying to tune it, so I will give it a shot too. Im also not sure if the choke is opening when warm. Oh well If I cant get it in tune I will put the EFI back on there and be done with it.
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Originally Posted by Keith
I just got an 88 with the racing beat carb setup. The car is using the stock ecu for spark. The car is slower than an EFI setup by a longshot. I read somewhere that a bracket is supposed to be fabbed for the TPS but am not sure about it. It has a fuel pressure regulator also. What could I be missing here? I thought this setup was supposed to be faster then stock EFI.
Get a distributer from a later 1st gen and then you should have some of your power back.
Keep in mind that you will always make more power with EFI. About $500 and you can get a Megasquirt and have full control over your fuel and spark (assuming you know how to tune it).
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