Edelbrock or Holley
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Mountain Pass
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Edelbrock or Holley
Looking for input for a carb. I'm looking at either a Edelbrock 1406 or a Holley 4160, or something else. The engine is balanced 302 and has a Edelbrock performer cam and intake manifold. Anyone have experience with either of these carbs? This will be a daily driver in the F1. Open to suggestions. Thanks
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I don't think you could go wrong with either one really. I sort of lean to Holleys since I think they are a little simpler. But I also like Edelbrocks and their carb manuals I think are very good as to how they take you through carb tuning. Here's another carb that I use that I really like:
www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-m08600vs/overview/
This one is an updated Holley 4010. And the Holley 4010, was basically an updated Autolite 4100. I like this summit carb because it is very tunable. you can easily swap out idle restrictions, jets, etc. Seems like just the right carb for my 302. No matter what carb you get, think about getting a good heat reducing spacer underneath it.
www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-m08600vs/overview/
This one is an updated Holley 4010. And the Holley 4010, was basically an updated Autolite 4100. I like this summit carb because it is very tunable. you can easily swap out idle restrictions, jets, etc. Seems like just the right carb for my 302. No matter what carb you get, think about getting a good heat reducing spacer underneath it.
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Mountain Pass
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1406
I plan on buying new but I have noticed when searching on craigslist, that there seems to be quite a few of the edelbrock 1406 show up on their. Was wondering if they had issues.
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I have both (currently running an Edelbrock 1409 on my f1) and like them both. but if I was building a DD, I would go with something like a Edelbrock Pro-Flo 3 EFI System for drivability!
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Summit
Been reading more about the Summit Racing m2008, which is a re-designed holley. It sounds like it is a possible choice to.
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Last century, i put a brand new Holley 500 CFM on my bone stock 302 in my Falcon. I couldn't get it to idle so I called tech services. The guy told me to adjust the accelerator pump. I did that and it got better but still wouldn't idle right, so I called them back. He told me to adjust something else (since the memory ain't what it used to be, I do not remember what it was. I adjusted that and it still wouldn't idle properly. So I called them again and this time he told me to adjust something else. At this pint I told him that this is a brand new carb not a flea market find. He tells me that they all need adjustment out of the box. I thanked him for his time and went to the local parts house and bought the Edelbrock 500 CFM carb, dropped it on and it purred like a kitten without any adjustment at all.
Now I am sure you will hear the same horror stories about the Edelbrock carbs, but every engine I have done since then has gotten an Edelbrock and they all ran great right out of the box.
And I was told that it is better to run a slightly smaller carb wide open than to run a bigger carb at an idle.
Just my 2 cents.
Later!
Mr. Ed
Now I am sure you will hear the same horror stories about the Edelbrock carbs, but every engine I have done since then has gotten an Edelbrock and they all ran great right out of the box.
And I was told that it is better to run a slightly smaller carb wide open than to run a bigger carb at an idle.
Just my 2 cents.
Later!
Mr. Ed
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The old conventional wisdom was that Holleys worked great at WOT but gave poor economy. That has been my experience too. I ran an Edelbrock on a 460 and it never gave me a moment's trouble. Didn't leak either, which is something I can't say about Holleys. And Edelbrocks don't have power valves.
I wouldn't rule out the stock Motorcraft/Autolite 4100's either. Very good carbs.
I wouldn't rule out the stock Motorcraft/Autolite 4100's either. Very good carbs.
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I have an edelbrock on my '51 and it runs great. I've had holley carbs on other cars and they also worked well (and are simple units). There's a Rochester quadrajet on my '56 chevy and that is unnecessarily complicated for a carburetor.
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I grew up behind the counter of an auto parts store in the 70's to mid 90's. Selling lots of carbs over the years, we got some feedback. People who raced, and loved to tune on their carb. loved Holleys. When someone didn't want to mess with it, they loved the Carter/ now edelbrock.
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I don't think you could go wrong with either one really. I sort of lean to Holleys since I think they are a little simpler. But I also like Edelbrocks and their carb manuals I think are very good as to how they take you through carb tuning. Here's another carb that I use that I really like:
www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-m08600vs/overview/
This one is an updated Holley 4010. And the Holley 4010, was basically an updated Autolite 4100. I like this summit carb because it is very tunable. you can easily swap out idle restrictions, jets, etc. Seems like just the right carb for my 302. No matter what carb you get, think about getting a good heat reducing spacer underneath it.
www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-m08600vs/overview/
This one is an updated Holley 4010. And the Holley 4010, was basically an updated Autolite 4100. I like this summit carb because it is very tunable. you can easily swap out idle restrictions, jets, etc. Seems like just the right carb for my 302. No matter what carb you get, think about getting a good heat reducing spacer underneath it.