I have also heard of the small fiber O ring betweent he vacuum dashpot and the main throttle body not being placed properly on them. Still one of my top choices for carbs. It's not the design, it's the execution, and Holley is still overall one of the best "out of the box" places.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.