Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley
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I'm looking to go from an Edelbrock 800 to a 4150 type Holley.
The rundown on the car and combo is a 67 Belvedere, 727, 451 with Edelbrock heads ootb, RPM intake, 10.5 comp, .520-254 solid cam, 9.5 converter, 4:10. This is street car but not interested in an electric choke as I have never used one being in Phoenix. If I decide to go that route it seems this time of year is as about as cheap as I am going find prices.
What carb would you guys recommend here?
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Re: Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley
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On your deal a 850 to 1050 CFM double pumper 4150 HP carb. is what I would buy, maybe a similar Quick Fuel or one of your other favorite brand carbs. EFI with a single 1000 to 1250 CFM 4150 throttle body is as good or a tiny bit better (and not compatable (SP?) with the dual plane intake you have) but a lot more money to start with
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Re: Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley
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The Holley 850DP is calibrated as a track carb. It will be very fat for a street car OOTB.
If you are comfortable with tuning the cruise and transitions, it would work for your application.
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You might want to think EFI I agree. Something like a Sniper or the MSD Atomic for a car like that. If you insist on a carb then I'd highly recommend something with billet metering blocks so you have a fighting chance at tuning it. The problem there is the better carbs with the latest features (idle air adjust, billet metering blocks, clear sight glass, etc.) are expensive. The really good carbs are close to $1000 and you still have to spend a few weekends with a screwdriver and a wide band to tune them.......
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I know this isn't a street carb but I'm going to buy a 750 for my little Ford, I've had great success with the 950 e-85 version on my Mopar. The shop that does my dyno work has been selling quite a few of them after working on mine. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/hly-0-80804hbxAnd yes the gass carbs are usually set up fat.
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Re: Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley
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I'm looking to go from an Edelbrock 800 to a 4150 type Holley.
The rundown on the car and combo is a 67 Belvedere, 727, 451 with Edelbrock heads ootb, RPM intake, 10.5 comp, .520-254 solid cam, 9.5 converter, 4:10. This is street car but not interested in an electric choke as I have never used one being in Phoenix. If I decide to go that route it seems this time of year is as about as cheap as I am going find prices.
What carb would you guys recommend here? Any of the billet block/base-plate carbs can be dialed in easy enuff especially if you have a wide-band afr gauge...........I`d stay clear of Holley personally and go QF, Pro-form etc. but I prefer and build from BLP parts and at a minimum a cast alum. main body OR step up to a full boogie billet........... EFI.........
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I have a Demon 850 and absolutely love it!
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OP combo is almost identical to mine. I ran an 830 DP for years with pretty good success. Last year I switched to a Holley 1000 HP Annular Booster carb. Every aspect of the way the car ran improved, both street and strip, with the exception of gas mileage. I don't really keep track of mileage, but I feel as though it was a notable difference in the "less MPG” direction. No question however that the cars throttle response improved. I attributed this primarily to the Annular boosters. At the track, which I'm primarily concerned with, I gained 2 tenths
I felt pretty good about my choice and results.
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Re: Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley
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If you don't use a choke, check out the Holley Days sale on the Quick Fuel "Brawler" 950. Don't freak about them calling it a 950 because the venturi size is only 1.45" vs 1.56" for a 4781. IIRC, the sale price is about $520 right now. It's Quick Fuel's version of the Proform 950, FWIW. That sounds like the hot ticket for ya Belvedere1. I would suggest a 950 4150 carb for your combo. If you have the extra money a 950 from Thumper would be the best way to go. If you don't want to go that route you can buy a carb custom built to your combo. The last time I bought a custom Quickfuel from Summit Racing I don't even think there was any extra charge for it money wise. You just fill out a form and they order it, this was several years ago though. The custom carbs I've used have been spot on, just bolt them on and enjoy your car. The 950 ProSystems carb on my current Duster, I bought it used on Racingjunk. Turns out the thing was only 2 weeks old because his customer wanted efi, and the guy selling it used to work for Prosytems, so he even set it up for my combo, and it runs like perfection. So you can find good deals out there, you just have to hope they haven't messed with the carb much.
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I'll check that Quick Fuel out. They have some great deals going right now through that sale which is what boosted my motivation to look at making a change. I would like to get Thumper's input on either putting one together or tweaking one that I buy. Every carb sent to me even new in the box need work and some more than others. $500 doesn't get ya much imo but try one of those mentioned and see how it works out for ya but I'd at least take it apart and make sure the tech carb matches the carb cos you'd be surprised how many don't...........
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Do jets, floats, gaskets, power valves, air bleeds, etc interchange between the Holley and Quick Fuel carbs?
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Do jets, floats, gaskets, power valves, air bleeds, etc interchange between the Holley and Quick Fuel carbs? Yes.
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Give me your thoughts on this QFT based SQ-950. I can get this built to my specs but this a starting point.
It has been assembled with high-flow .110" needle & seat assemblies, 30cc pumps, #33 squirters with pink #330 racing pump cams, non-stick bowl and block gaskets, nylon bowl screw gaskets, and vent baffle. The jetting is 78 up front with a 6.5" Hg high-flow power valve, and 86 in the rear with the power valve circuit blocked. The mounting gaskets are included as shown. Here's a list of features; QFT polished lightweight aluminum main body with screw-in air bleeds. .073" idle and .030" high speed bleeds installed. Red anodized billet aluminum metering blocks that are custom calibrated for maximum performance. 4 corner idle for fine tuning your idle circuit. Teflon coated throttle shafts, stainless steel throttle blades, and loctited button-head screws for increased flow due to decreased turbulence.
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Re: Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley
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Give me your thoughts on this QFT based SQ-950. I can get this built to my specs but this a starting point.
It has been assembled with high-flow .110" needle & seat assemblies, 30cc pumps, #33 squirters with pink #330 racing pump cams, non-stick bowl and block gaskets, nylon bowl screw gaskets, and vent baffle. The jetting is 78 up front with a 6.5" Hg high-flow power valve, and 86 in the rear with the power valve circuit blocked. The mounting gaskets are included as shown. Here's a list of features; QFT polished lightweight aluminum main body with screw-in air bleeds. .073" idle and .030" high speed bleeds installed. Red anodized billet aluminum metering blocks that are custom calibrated for maximum performance. 4 corner idle for fine tuning your idle circuit. Teflon coated throttle shafts, stainless steel throttle blades, and loctited button-head screws for increased flow due to decreased turbulence. Have them put in .120 cos .110 are not "high flowing" and need more pressure to be stable like 7 psi instead of 6 or less w/the .120`s...........
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Give me your thoughts on this QFT based SQ-950. I can get this built to my specs but this a starting point.
It has been assembled with high-flow .110" needle & seat assemblies, 30cc pumps, #33 squirters with pink #330 racing pump cams, non-stick bowl and block gaskets, nylon bowl screw gaskets, and vent baffle. The jetting is 78 up front with a 6.5" Hg high-flow power valve, and 86 in the rear with the power valve circuit blocked. The mounting gaskets are included as shown. Here's a list of features; QFT polished lightweight aluminum main body with screw-in air bleeds. .073" idle and .030" high speed bleeds installed. Red anodized billet aluminum metering blocks that are custom calibrated for maximum performance. 4 corner idle for fine tuning your idle circuit. Teflon coated throttle shafts, stainless steel throttle blades, and loctited button-head screws for increased flow due to decreased turbulence. Have them put in .120 cos .110 are not "high flowing" and need more pressure to be stable like 7 psi instead of 6 or less w/the .120`s........... I'd want to know what QF uses as an out-of-the-box tune in order to see how much "custom calibration" is really done to a carb built to "your" specs. Wouldn't be the first time I've heard about "custom calibrated" carbs being about 95% out-of-the-box, and part of the 5% difference includes the decals for the shop that sells it. Yeah, I'm pretty jaded these days.
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my dad has a couple of new carbs in the box..quickfuel P950 and P1050.he's in the hospital right now and should be home this weekend.maybe drop him a line i know he wants to get them sold aj link to pictures https://imgur.com/a/VcnLb
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Give me your thoughts on this QFT based SQ-950. I can get this built to my specs but this a starting point.
It has been assembled with high-flow .110" needle & seat assemblies, 30cc pumps, #33 squirters with pink #330 racing pump cams, non-stick bowl and block gaskets, nylon bowl screw gaskets, and vent baffle. The jetting is 78 up front with a 6.5" Hg high-flow power valve, and 86 in the rear with the power valve circuit blocked. The mounting gaskets are included as shown. Here's a list of features; QFT polished lightweight aluminum main body with screw-in air bleeds. .073" idle and .030" high speed bleeds installed. Red anodized billet aluminum metering blocks that are custom calibrated for maximum performance. 4 corner idle for fine tuning your idle circuit. Teflon coated throttle shafts, stainless steel throttle blades, and loctited button-head screws for increased flow due to decreased turbulence. Have them put in .120 cos .110 are not "high flowing" and need more pressure to be stable like 7 psi instead of 6 or less w/the .120`s........... I'd want to know what QF uses as an out-of-the-box tune in order to see how much "custom calibration" is really done to a carb built to "your" specs. Wouldn't be the first time I've heard about "custom calibrated" carbs being about 95% out-of-the-box, and part of the 5% difference includes the decals for the shop that sells it. Yeah, I'm pretty jaded these days. YEP..............
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It shouldn't be that difficult to compare what is in a box stock SQ-950 to the changes that would be made. I'm still in research mode on the whole thing. I hope to have something figured out in the next couple of days. I was very happy with my QTF carb they set up for me.. it was a E-85 carb and they did a fine job.. they asked a bunch of questions and when I put it on the car it was on the money even with the AF meter on it.. even the idle
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Not quite but should work..........
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I agree, as long as its not less than 800 I don't really care.
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I got the carb on and the car running again. It runs great right out of the box, the one and only adjustment was the idle speed. The float levels were spot on too. It was tweaked slightly from the box stock settings by the guy I bought it from. It seems that he nailed the settings. Jet 78/86, 4.5 power valve, rear blocked, idle restrictor .037, idle bleeds .030, high speed .073, 35 squirters front and rear, 30cc cam in front and 50 in rear. The only issue that is still there that I had with the Edelbrock 800 is at a warm idle when the engine starts to shudder like it drops a cylinder then picks back up again. The idle is better with this carb but the shuddering is still there. I'm at a loss from where to go from here on that.
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The baffling part is that its just the idle only but anything is possible with electrical issues in my experience. I started down that road a few months back with swapping to an old known good orange box and a stock coil with no change. I'm using a chrome box and an MSD Blaster coil. I'll see if a buddy of mine still has his scope at his shop.
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......The only issue that is still there that I had with the Edelbrock 800 is at a warm idle when the engine starts to shudder like it drops a cylinder then picks back up again. The idle is better with this carb but the shuddering is still there. I'm at a loss from where to go from here on that. Can you add some more description around this? Not real clear what happens and when.
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You can buy the clamp to the exhaust deal or just chassis dyno it then tune to suit your needs but even dynos run WB's it's the BEST and you're guessing otherwise............
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At anything from just a couple minutes after start up to just about 180 on the water temp gauge the idle is smooth or as smooth as it can be given the cam with a very consistent idle. When the temp gets to normal operating the idle rpm in gear will get a little erratic almost to the point of it feeling like it drops a cylinder and picks back up and then feels like a miss again, and on and on. In gear idle is around 800 and in park it will smooth out slightly at around 1000 to 1100. The best vacuum reading I get is 10 with an initial timing setting of 20. I thought the problem with the old Edelbrock carb was it not getting a decent vacuum signal causing the metering rods to bounce up and down and the carb to hunt between the idle and main circuit. This new carb made things overall slightly better. Okay. Thanks I still would not rule out a vacuum leak, but I'm thinking you simply need to get into the weed on your idle tune-up. That size cam at 800 rpm in gear needs to be right, IMO. Without an A/F meter, I would maybe start with a bit more initial timing (make sure that it is not moving between 800 and 1100 rpm too) and try a bit fatter. The only vacuum leak method that always works for me is the simple hand over the carb test.
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Cup your hand to choke it out. It usually takes a me a couple of hand position adjustments. It will choke out and die with or without a vacuum leak. The difference is if there is a leak, there will be an very brief increase in rpm before it dies. It is subtle and pretty quick and you'll need to be listening closely.
Engine has to be fully warmed up. If it dies instantly. No leak and you can move on to the next thing.
I've always been able to identify if there is a leak this way, but not necessarily able to find it with soapy water, or spraying stuff around.
I don't know if this is your problem. As I said, I don't think so, but I'm still not quite following your description. If your idle is what I call "wondering" at idle, I have found that it is either a vacuum leak, or the mechanical advance weights are too week and the timing moves around at idle, especially when you put it in gear.
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but I'm thinking you simply need to get into the weed on your idle tune-up. agreed, first thing i would do is go over the idle tune once it gets completely warm. the motor should be gradually idling smoother and stronger as it warms up until it's finally completely warm.
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Well, it doesn't like the timing at 24, I got it to detonate on moderate acceleration. I changed the advance springs to the lightest silver springs in the kit without much of a difference there. I was home alone so wasn't able to check the in gear timing. I'll play around with it again next week. The timing at 24 was only to see if it had an impact on your idle problem. Any change there?
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If it's really pinging at light load like that, you need to step up fuel grade or mix imo...........
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I also didn't reduce the mechanical advance to it was still advancing higher than it should have with 4 more deg of initial. 91 is the best pump gas you can get at 99.99% of stations.
95 is about 5.40/gal and 100 is 7.40/gal Generally what I've seen is as much initial as needed(or locked out)then limit the total to where it's happy octane wise...........
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Re: Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley-Update
[Re: Thumperdart]
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01/13/18 02:25 PM
01/13/18 02:25 PM
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dart4forte
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I’ve been lurking here listening to all the advice. I’m not a professional tuner but I know enough to keep me out of trouble. With the exception of the heads your engine is about equal to the 451 I had in my Charger. Not really a Holley guy but know enough to be dangerous.
From the latest postings it’s sounding more and more to be ignition. Having not seen your car in over a year it would be hard for me to comment. Let’s say we get together and solve this problem. Just set aside a day to give us time. Between the two of us we should be able to solve the problem. Send me a PM or text me. I know you have a busy work schedule but being retired I’m flexible.
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Re: Carb suggestions, looking at going Holley-Update
[Re: Belvedere1]
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01/14/18 01:07 PM
01/14/18 01:07 PM
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dart4forte
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I really appreciate the offer and short of me making a couple of distributor adjustments I will take you up on it. I feel like I am closer than I have ever been on this. I agree the that remedy lies in the ignition and all signs point to the distributor. If I don't see any improvement I'm ready to for a fresh set of eyes and ideas. I think sometimes you get so wrapped up in something you lose that perspective of being able to step back and have a different approach. Sometimes it takes the blinding flash of the obvious to see the problem.
“So if it’s on the internet it must be true”
Abe Lincoln
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