Cuz it looks cool 😂
Personally for smaller engines I really think the 3x2’s are more fun.
427+ and 2, 600’s make a ton more sense.
Odd you have so many needle/seat issues. You claimed I use a mallet, but honestly I really just don’t have a problem there.
I have two really good fuel filters and a high end regulator set at 5psi. No problems.
Royce is 100% correct about factory settings on factory engines.
Of course once you throw a 250@.050 cam at the car, you do whatcha gotta go to make it all work.
My car is pretty fussy if I asked it to idle below 800 in gear. You can get it tuned to do it, and I often do a “low idle check” but it’s a lit more forgiving with 100rpm more.
I've got'em on a small block so the two fours take up the whole engine!
I had a neighbor stop and ask if his brother visiting from Florida (they come here to spread the virus and break quarantine) see my car (the '68 GT350 was out). He has a 66 Mustang FB back in FL. He looked under the hood, swayed like he was going to faint, paused and said, "that's 500 hp!". I said, "yea, kinda'".
The carbs I am working on are on that engine. A 347.
I can't idle any lower then what I am at BUT I haven't tried Drew's secondary trick yet. It just gets too rough under 800. 870 is fine with me. It's like a marching band now at idle. Boom, boom, bada, bada, boom, boom. It's got a rythem to it.
Drew. As far as the sticking inlet valves, if I have fuel shooting out of the vent like a gyser, then likely THE VALVE IS STUCK OPEN. Do I need to look? No.
In all honesty, that's the bowl I just pulled off of another carb which had been sitting a month or so, and I should know better then not to verify it wasn't stuck from sitting?
Me bad.
Mallet. You posted a video on your Facebook of you whacking, ok, tapping a carb on a running engine with a gimpy valve. I only saw it and didn't create it. Some of us here do follow you there you know?
Fuel. I'm in NY, just north of NYC. Whatever is in the pumps is what I use. AMMACO 93 and sometimes SUNOCO 93, is in the cars but I've heard complaints from some of the street rodders about the ethanol. It's only 10%. Their cars sit sometimes a couple of weeks and that in my experience is over the limit with a Holley once it's had fuel in it.
My Webers are MUCH more forgiving since they have no gaskets in the bowls and the inlet valves are glass balls with no rubber parts in them but they can stick too.
You do 30 carbs a day. I may have done 30 Holleys in my life total. Plus some think I'm retarded anyway so maybe they are right? I'll get it right. It just takes me longer.
I do have the tendency of creating my own problems. My son says it's because I have too many parameters going at the same time.
It's like the guy spinning the plates on sticks on the old Ed Sullivan show. You have to keep them all spinning without breaking any. The wife counts the missing plates.