E15 is coming!

[85_Ranger4x4]

My son has a 302 swapped 84 Turbo Coupe that originally ran an Edelbrock. He told me how well he liked it so we swapped carbs for a week. Compared to my Holley the throttle response was soggy and that Friday night at New England Dragway my Mustang ran .3 seconds slower. .3 seconds doesn't sound like much unless you've drag raced and tried to shave tenths off your time. 3 tenths is huge, I lost a race once by .002 seconds. The Edelbrock started fine and ran smooth- so did the 2150 I removed when I built the engine. I got the Holley calibration where I wanted it and haven't changed anything since I built this engine in 2009.

Yeah, I don't do that.

The thing your Holley sits on and the thing my Edelbrock sat on were built to do two extremely different things.

I did mull a Truck Avenger for a little more peace of mind off camber but since my Edelbrock had yet to faulter that was a $800 pill that was hard to swallow. And then I would still have to screw with it for elevation changes... but it would be more of a PITA to screw with than the Edelbrock.

I am going EFI now which should be better at everything I do than a carb while drastically simplifying the ignition.

 

[superj]

the best carb i ever ran for anything that tilted the vehicle to odd angles was a rochester quadrajet. the other quadrajet makers were troublesome but the rochester made ones were really decent. i smoothed the throat of the casting marks and tuned them with a vacuum gage and never had trouble again with the rochester versions

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

the best carb i ever ran for anything that tilted the vehicle to odd angles was a rochester quadrajet. the other quadrajet makers were troublesome but the rochester made ones were really decent. i smoothed the throat of the casting marks and tuned them with a vacuum gage and never had trouble again with the rochester versions

I've heard good things about those and the 2150 2bbls.

I blocked the crossover between the bowls and never had mine leaning enough to bother... but it was always in the back of my mind.