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RE:a different opinion
By McQ - 03/19/2004 11:13:16 PM; IP 65.176.105.246
A stock '64 intake on a 390 with a mild cam in a '64 Galaxie and you want to tune it yourself?

I'm not going to try to be a know-it-all but I just have to say that I think any Holley double pumper here is not the right choice.

I have used a lot of Holleys on FEs. There have been great ones and there have been problems. I have also used four different AFBs/Edelbrock Performer carbs. They have all worked perfectly and were reasonably easy to fine tune.

One app was on a 390, Performer intake, HP352 exhaust manifolds, electronic ignition, mild hydraulic cam all topped off with a 600 cfm Edelbrock carb. I bought E'brock's "Strip Kit" box of jets, step-up springs and metering rods. I used their little booklet that came in the box with the carb. There was a slight hesitation accelerating off idle. This was with the carb bolted on out of the box. I made some adjustments, i.e., primary jets, step-up springs, metering rods. The process took minutes and there was no gasoline leakage/spillage making these adjustments. I also added E'brock's kickdown lever since I was running a kickdown rod from the trans. This was in a F100 pickup. That carb worked perfectly without a single problem.

I had a similar experience with a 750 cfm, manual choke, on a 428 CJ. Again, all went perfectly. And in this particular instance the E'brock 750 matched the CJ Holley 735 in performance - not just seat-o-the-pants but actual drag strip E.T.s and mph.

I personally can't see a double-pumper on a mild 390.
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 RE:there you go -- McQ, 03/20/2004
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