I got bored a few weeks ago and cranked it out. There seemed to be an abundance of the same questions, so I thought I would write it to get people some basic info. I tried to keep it as neutral as possible. Lemmie know what you think.

https://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/tech/pickacarb.shtml

 

Pretty good, I'd say. The newly emerging Demon crowd will feel under-represented, though. I know a local musclecar builder/restorer/tuner that would beg to differ on your "pretty much exactly equal" performance statement - and he's been a Holley fan for years.

 

Jester, good article. it summed up just about every carb and every advantage/disadvantage. i must say, i never regarded the edelbrocks as poor performers, but hey, everyone has their tastes

ps. why would you need mech. secondaries on a car with a 3000 stall? wouldn't vac. secondaries work fine?

 

btt

 

I think he ment that you shoulden't run mech. sec. on a car w/o a 3000 stall or a manual.

As far as Edelbrock's, I think they deserve more credit than you give them. You make it almost sound like they are worse for your car then keeping the stock Q.

-Matt

 

Yeah, doesn't seem to be very neutral to me.

 

"Good job, even tho I don't need it. Go sacrafice a chicken or something to celebrate."


Even if I totally agreed I would have selected this one.

BTW I still want you to come up here and tune a 750 CFM carb @ 4800ft above sea level on a SBC.

 

lol..well I really wanted to write something along the lines of "edelcrocks suck. You would be much better off keeping the stock carb. Don;t even consider these POS's, or anything else from that company." I think I kept it very neutral considering.

Seriously..I would rather have a Q-jet than an Edelcrap....hands down. A non CC version one anyway...the CC ones are kinda a tough call....

 

I must be one of the lucky few. My CC q-jet is the best q-jet I've ever had.

And I don't have my tongue in my cheek.

And I've got 2 Edelbrock q-jets (that are supposed to be the best non-CC q-jets ever made).

 

Ok guys, i've got this CC Q-jet sitting in my garage. I took it off of an 305 monte ss I had. IS This carb going to work with out the computer? This is probably a stupid question, I just haven't bothered trying the carb with out the computer yet.

 

"Run"? Yes.

"Work"? No.

 

There's nothing wrong with disliking Edelbrock, you probably hate them as much as I hate B&M.

Being less than perfectly objective isn't that bad I suppose, but it would help if you came clean in the article about your personal vendetta against Edelbrock.

 

yeah B&M sucks too, altho I don't think quite as bad as Edelcrap. TCI sucks worse.

 

Yeah Jester, I gotta agree with Apeiron. You've been nursing a big-time hatred for Edelbrock for as long as I've followed the boards around here

Now you're out of the closet--exposed, as it were!