Thread: whats your favorite carburetor?

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No suggestion who to buy, but a possible suggestion not to buy.

I've had fits with my Speed Demon, but I think the rich condition I THOUGHT I had early on was just oil blowby before the rings seated.

I never could get the electronic choke to work, so I pulled it and installed a manual choke. In order to do that, I had to buy the WHOLE conversion kit, which included all of the parts (butterfly, linkages, etc.) that were already on the carb.

The local dyno shops don't like them at all. For several years, BG had horrible quality control problems - metal shavings in the carbs, loose parts, etc. They claim that they had those problems fixed by early 2008. That leaves a lot of possible problem BG carbs on the shelves.

My big problem, which seems to be common on BG carbs, is the idle to off-idle stumble. They put in their special "idle-eaze" adjustment to compensate, but those of us with older carbs are pretty much out of luck, I guess - unless we want to pay $160 for a new baseplate.

I've noticed that Summit stopped selling Demons. BG says that BG cancelled the Summit account because of their liberal return policy. However, a liberal return policy shouldn't affect you if you build a quality product. At this point, I wouldn't buy another Demon.

Here's a good thread to read. A tech from BG is trying to save the day, but I don't think he's ahead on points.

http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?p=909261