Thread: best carb on 292 chev 4 perfomance?

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Hi guys!
I'm putting a 292 in a 52 chevy with plans to road-race it; I'll be putting a header, performance cam, pertronix ignition module, and wondering about the best carburation. a 4barrel or 2 separate carbs? What I need is low-end grunt for the corners, and something that won't bog out under hard cornering.

Thanks for the help!!!

Probably more info will be needed to answer.
How much of a cam, will you have any vaccume to work with.

I have a buddy who run's dual 2 barrel holley's. The car screams.
What gear's are you running? What intake? Compression?

Sounds like fun.

Just a thought....this thing begs for a fuel injection conversion. A fuel injected 292 could kick butt on a small V8. For corners, the float bowl problems are gone, the altitude problems are gone, the cold start problems are gone....gee, kinda like the reasons to switch to fuel injection. Jeep has a retrofit kit for their 4.0 that was pre fuel injection.....others vendors have rather universal f.i. kits.....it would be neat to have....

The problem with a carb manifold on an inline six is the runner length quandry....too short or too long, pick your cylinder. The manifolds available suck, they are designed to fit stock engines and to be cheap to build. Some folks used Mukini (sp?) carbs off of a bike or Webers and fabricated a manifold to hold three carbs. I think I remember a setup using three Keihins (sp?) off of a Honda bike. Never the less, fuel injection is the ticket. When you choose your cam, f.i. likes a certain overlap....your injection setup supplier should be able to help you.... for a 350 Chev, the number was 112 deg as I remember.

Thanks guys, I can't run fuel injection in this class, so that's out, although I bet it would scream...
The dual Holley's; do you know if he's had any cornering problems?
I don't know the exact grind for the cam, it's the performance cam for this engine from Erson cams, they're one of my sponsors, they told me it wasn't a full-race cam, it's streetable with multiple carbs or a 4 barrel.
Just pulled my 1st 292 apart yesterday only to find a cracked cylinder wall, now on to find another donor, ah the life of working on old cars!!!