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RE: Stock 390 = CJ carb?
By Gerry Proctor - 03/01/2002 6:55:35 AM; IP 207.133.188.254
Terry, I've done this and can tell you from personal experience that it is detrimental on a stock 390 to go any higher than the factory-sized 600 CFM carb. There was no gain in upper rpm power and the car was slower overall. Performance, economy, and driveability all suffered with the larger carb.

It doesn't matter what carb you use...Carter, Holley, Edelbrock. They all perform exactly the same as far as the end result...mixing air and fuel. The Edelbrock and Carter require a little more tuning knowledge since you're not just chaning jets and power valves as in a Holley, but they're not difficult to tune at all.
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 Best carb for a stock 390 -- Terry, 03/01/2002
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 Hard to beat a 735 C-J original... -- kevin, 03/01/2002
Collapse <b>RE: Stock 390 = CJ carb?</b>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Gerry Proctor, <i>03/01/2002</i></font>RE: Stock 390 = CJ carb? -- Gerry Proctor, 03/01/2002
 RE: Stock 4100 -- R Shannon, 03/03/2002
 Don't bother adding cfm without other mods. [n/m] -- Mr F, 03/01/2002
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