Dual Quad Intakes [Can you disconnect one carb?]

If you're running an in-line intake and the linkage is set up like this, it will be progressive and the front carb will only function when you put your foot in it. You can remove the link and leave the front carb off completely.

Herb: Are you running a Stage V intake? The stock intake obviously works with the progressive linkage but the Stage V is a single plane design.

Sheldon

Listen up people.....an ENGINE needs a certain A/F ratio to run properly. It doesn't care how it gets it. Dual Quads set up properly are just as fuel efficent as a 2brl carb, which can be just as fuel efficent as fuel injection.

An A/F meter (LM-1) is the best way to tune things and get the ratio correct for all driving situations (cruise, idle, accel pumps, wot,.....)

TO answer your question, OF course you can disconnect one carb, and re-adjust the IDLE SPEED SCREW. You (theoretically) should not need to adjust the idle mix screw. But that's a bid too perfect, as you will start getting into the transition circuit, the more you open the blades up.

But you are just masking the problem here......Get the Carbs setup and you'll be just as efficent as a 2brl!

Oh yeah,,...and Here is how my car is setup and I get excellent gas mileage for the power it produces:

Idle: 14.5-14.8
Cruising: 13.8-15.0
WOT: 12.8-13.1

i have the stage V also, with 2 650 eddy's. i also get lousy milage, but with a 472 running 1 to 1 on the carbs, i'm not sure i can expect much else.

i have talked with tim banning at FHO, and with the guy, (can't remember his name), at stage V who makes the manifold and they both say run it 1:1. now, i never did ask about mileage, so maybe that is another issue.

i assume though that if you could get better mileage, the same power, and not run the front part of the engine lean, they would have said so. would be worth double checking and asking that.

herb, do you have your vacuum advance set up? that would obviously help on the highway. although i have never checked actual mileage, i did seem to notice a difference when i got mine coming it at the right time.

oh, and stage V finally has a real web site after all these years!

www.stagev.com

and for some really heavy duty stuff, check out the 308 on the specials page

I wish there were some prices listed. I have been thinking of getting a Hemi, but remember reading about these heads years ago. How much did a complete set of heads run you guys?