I'll say the budget is around $500ish. I'm also not opposed to going with a good used carb. I can tune the Holley up to a point but when/if it comes to drilling and tapping and such I would farm that out to one of the carb gurus. (i.e. Thumper).

I'm just looking for carb that idles better than the 800 Eddy I have now mainly. The Eddy performs extremely well in all areas except the idle. I'm pretty much done with trying to tune it. I'm getting 10" of vacuum at idle and the metering rods are just bouncing up and down. Its like it cant figure which circuit its on - the idle or the main. I'm not looking for all out strip performance but something that works well on the street which is less than 500 miles a year with very short local trips here and there and then very very rare strip occasion. I figure if the thing runs a mid to high 11 then I'm happy with it.