The milder the engine, the easier it usually is to find an acceptable OOTB carb for it. Not likely perfect, but acceptable.

Finding an OOTB carb that works good for a mild, street driven Mopar is not a tall order. In fact, there are several that will work okay. At least drive okay with no particularly bad habits. But while driving okay is a good beginning, that carb is often quite a bit too rich. Being too rich is the lesser of two evils as being too lean is much more likely to cause immediate operational and maybe even mechanical problems.

But as the engine gets hotter, the carb (and even EFI) tuning gets trickier. A bumpy idle makes getting the carb's idle and low speed circuits dialed in much tougher and often requires timing and other adjustments be made along with the carb. So, that is an entirely different subject.

Really, in order for someone to ask for carb recommendations, there needs to be a spec sheet filled out with all the pertinent information on the application. It takes a lot of information to make an informed recommendation.

Since carb recommendations are such a frequent request here, why doesn't someone post a spec sheet for that purpose?


Master, again and still