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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 05:47 PM
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Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

okay my motor is just about done and need help deciding on which carb to get.....
so far the motor has:

bored over .40
new crank.
lunati voodoo .504/.525 cam
built heads. 2.02/ 1.60s manley valves.
edelbrock air gap RPM.

now carb? any suggestions guys??
Plz thans for your time!!!
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 06:50 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

choke, vaccum secondaries, what are you looking for?

street/strip deal, id go with a quick fuel 750. bolt it on and go.
great carb for the money.
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 07:55 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

A 750 vacuum secondary would work great, i tune them so i dont need the choke, since you live down here you wont either. A 650 would be optimal really, but the decent 650 that is the 750 style is near impossible to find, i got REALLY lucky when i got mine. But the 750 is no problem. A bit over carbed but it is no biggie.
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 10:35 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

thanx guys for the input. yeah im thinking of going with a 750 vacuum secondaries. any place that have good deals on them in town?
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Old Jan 1, 2010 | 11:23 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

why not just a 700 holley double pumper???
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Old Jan 2, 2010 | 07:00 AM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

Originally Posted by antsZRS
thanx guys for the input. yeah im thinking of going with a 750 vacuum secondaries. any place that have good deals on them in town?
Personally man, i get them off Ebay for about 60$ or a swap meet, then i rebuil them for 40$ from the parts store and i have a 100$ carb that is hard to beat.

get one and i will rebuild it for you if you like man, you just need to help me clean it.

Originally Posted by DrewsCam
why not just a 700 holley double pumper???
Just not needed on the street, my nastiest cars have vacuum secondary carbs, leave the mechanical carbs to the track use, i have one i swap on just for the track.
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Old Jan 3, 2010 | 12:02 AM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

hey zone. pm sent!
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Old Jan 3, 2010 | 07:01 AM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

Replied, found some for you.
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Old Jan 3, 2010 | 09:29 AM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

Originally Posted by ZONES89RS
Just not needed on the street, my nastiest cars have vacuum secondary carbs, leave the mechanical carbs to the track use, i have one i swap on just for the track.
im not arguing with ya. i see people do this all the time, but never really see any results at the track between the two.

if you are looking for drivability, a double pumper can be just and smooth as anything when setup correctly.

have you tried either at the track? what type of mpg savings is there vs the carb you run at the track?
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Old Jan 3, 2010 | 03:21 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

Well, the vacuum secondary pulls fuel as needed VS the mechanical dumping at WOT.

The power is there for me at the track because i build vac sec for the street from a base Holley and then my mechanical i built from scratch and has the higher flowing pro form main body and all the works, so it makes more power as it is a performance oriented piece VS stock modified with a choke horn and what not.
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Old Jan 6, 2010 | 07:06 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

point noted...
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Old Jan 10, 2010 | 01:20 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

hey zone.

man i been fighting all week on ebay for a carb. lol and i keep losing. lol i got one right now. so im hoping i can get it. and ill send you a pm okay dude.
thanx
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Old Jan 10, 2010 | 05:51 PM
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Re: Need Help Choosing My New Carb. any suggestions plz?

PM replied.
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