Hey all,

Any of you done it? How do you hook up a throttle cable with the 73-79 pedal bracket?

The reason I'm doin it is cos I'm sick of my holley 4150 keepin me stranded on off camber and inclines. Read on pirate about a backwards Q-jet and it sounds pretty shveet.

I'm open to suggestions, cept edelbrocks cos they're gheyness

 

you can call the Edelbrock carb gay all you want. all i can say is my E-brock carbs have never ever left me stuck with no gas like the holley or quadrabog has on way too many occasions. .

 

My old Edlbrock carb sucked on side hills.

I swapped to a summit brand carb, and never had issues again

 

You'll have to make a bracket and use a cable linkage.


Quickfuel......

 

Couldn't he get a peddle and cable off a 6 cylinder pickup than just make the bracket for the carb end?

 

Depending on use of truck, propane could be a decent solution.

But no, no backward carb experience from me. Backwards spark plug wires, however..

 

Ive ran edelbrocks that get all wacked out when driving a car too hard on ASPHALT. I'm talking like 45-55* inclines and 30-40* off camber driving. That I'm trying to do here

Hav2- that a summit brand holley 3310 or a q-jet?

a/o- I have a quickfuel that I put on my dad's torino, that thing is the sheeeeet! Love it. The SS series can lay a rape to any other holley style out there. I'm trying to get away from the holley bowl design and vent though. I like the q-jet cos of the center bowl and jets in the bottom.

Hav 2- interested in that straight 6 idea. They used thottle cables?

P4- its a DD foremost, also a tow rig, and wheeler. I don't think propane is practical and I have too much into the fuel system ATM to justify a switch to propane. I hear there's some huge advantage to having it backwards, I'm guessing it has to do with the needle and seat location relative to where the float is hinging that you don't lose fuel control on inclines.

 

Take a piece of 5/16 rubber fuel line and connect the two vents at the front and rear. Cut a little V out in the middle for a vent.



Yeah Dave. Basically do it like most do on a 300 with a 4bbl holley. Heres mine

 

Alright that does it...no more free Ford parts for you.

 

a/o - is that pretty much a stock cable set up from the pedal side? I imagine you did some fab on that carb side

grinner - Well thats just for '78s of course, '73s and '79s work great with em

 

-- Also, drop the float level at least 1/4" and run an adjustable fuel pressure regulator dialed back to about 1.5 - 2 psi.

 

Its a 24" lokar cable.

 

i have nothing of value to add, but i vote edelbrock. my experience with holleys is that they are for "carb people" who know how to tune and will continuously adjust sheot. that ain't me, so i'll take the stupid simple adjust once and done e-brock all day every day.

same truck, same motor. holley, 750 i think, ran like a raped ape and had whip crack response. also ran like sheot on anything other than straight line pulls and only managed 4-5 mpg. edelbrock 750 was a better all around carb. mpg went up to 9-11, i could side hill and even got my truck vertical and stuck my hitch in the ground and it kept running fine. i lost some response and power but it was a dd, not a dedicated toy.

plus their stickers are cooler....

 

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/su...00vs/overview/

Or one of these two
http://www.summitracing.com/search/d...rels/4/cfm/750

 

F100/350 "stock" accelerator cables (9A758):