My next carburetor experiment

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Feb 5, 2017 | 10:32 PM

Justin73supercamper

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My next carburetor experiment

I found this cool predator carburetor. My uncle used to run them when I was younger. I always wanted one. So when this one came up on craigslist I jumped on it. I am going to put it on my 390 . Just to try and see what it will do. I know it's not a economy carburetor but is a 390 going to care. I just wanna see what the variable cfm does. Eventually I will put it on my 53 Chevy pickup with a stroker small block.but I'm afraid of not having a way of hooking up my kick down rod for my c6. I don't wanna burn the transmission up not having the kick down hooked up. So unless have to get a bell crank of some sort to hook it up.

Needs some cleaning but still cool looking

Feb 5, 2017 | 10:36 PM

PapaBearYuma

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From: Great American SouthWest

As long as the kickdown is not engaged, it won't hurt the transmission to not have/use the lever. Just remove it.

However, not having the kickdown might change your shift points, especially under load

At least that's what a local shop told me. They seem to be a good place...