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I drove down to Willow Spring, NC this morning to visit Doc Bilbrey.

He's going to help me get the engine together and run on his dyno.

He likes the 950hp carb, but I'll send him a link to the comments posted here about one.

He said not to use the TTI 1-7/8" headers on break-in but to buy a set of Hooker headers and he'll provide the 18mm bungs for the a/f sensors. He had headers for the 440 but the tubes were over 2-1/4" in diameter.

He's going to fit me in mid-March which gives me time to collect the remaining parts like the carb, aluminum water pump housing, ATI damper, and a distributor. He doesn't mind me helping out either, which is cool.

Doc said he was semi-retired but looking in his engine room, he had no less than 11 engine projects going on.



950 is a good carb for power, and pretty decent on the street. If your car is more a weekend toy it will work good. If the car is a daily driver then a smaller carb with choke would be a better choice for easier driving in cold weather, and to get into the main jet circuitry sooner at low speed to improve fuel mileage.
I never have used a proform carb, but I was looking at the jegs catalog and they have a 750 cfm vacuum secondary carb with all the goodies like notched rear float and jet extentions, and screw-in air bleads and restrictions for $430.