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Aug 3, 2006 | 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Bear 45/70

Your comparison is an "apple to oranges" comparison. I was just trying to make it an "apples to apples" comparison. A 500CFM rated 4 barrel will have much smaller throttle bores and venturis than a 500CFM rated 2 barrel and will have much better throttle response. As a Holley tech at the Nationals in Tulsa, OK once told me, "a lot of little holes work much better than a couple of big holes".

Point taken, My point was, your telling the tale that a 350 cfm was really a 248 cfm (in 4 bbl speak) Which to some uninformed people could take that in the wrong way, and thinking their carb was smaller and would flow 100 cfm's less than they thought. There's enough people out there now that don't understand carbs as is. The lots of small holes work better than two (or 4) bigger ones is right on the money, after experiencing how the triple 250's worked on my 331.