Never ceases to amaze me.

Carb worked fine on one car, swapped to another and it's acting up so the carb is a POS.

Right, keep throwing money at it. How about you test your fuel pressure like a number of people have told you to.

I have been running Edelbrock carbs since 88 and have never had the issues people seem to have, but it must just be me being lucky I guess.

They say there are no such thing as a stupid question.
They say there is always the exception that proves the rule.
Don't be the exception.