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Jul 5, 2011 | 11:46 PM

85T/A350

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Car: 1987 Pontiac Trans Am

Engine: 350 Vortec

Transmission: 700R4

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New Carb Soon, Need Help

Here in the next day or two I will be ordering a new carb. I need help on size and what kind of carb. It must be electric choke and below $400. The motor is a 96 Vortec 350 with a performer intake, XR270HR cam, and hedman longtubes. I hsve one carb in mind now but just looking for opinions.

This is the carb Im thinking about now:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HLY-0-80783C/

Jul 6, 2011 | 05:38 PM

scooter500

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Car: 87 Camaro Z-28

Engine: 305 LG4 w/ E4ME carb

Transmission: 700R4

Axle/Gears: 2.73

Re: New Carb Soon, Need Help

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Originally Posted by 85T/A350

For ~$9 bucks more you can get a king carb: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/JET-35003/

Jul 6, 2011 | 08:30 PM

85T/A350

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Car: 1987 Pontiac Trans Am

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Re: New Carb Soon, Need Help

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For ~$9 bucks more you can get a king carb: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/JET-35003/

Looks nice but its a little more than $9 more.

Jul 7, 2011 | 06:52 AM

pancherj

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Car: 1990 IROC

Engine: Rebuilt L98 with H/C/I/Carb

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Re: New Carb Soon, Need Help

That carb should work fine. Remember to budget for all of the little things, they will end up costing almost as much as the carb (jet kit, gaskets, vacuum pod tuning kits, throttle and TV cable brackets, geometry corrector for the TV cable, etc.).