Thread: Holley or Edelbrock Carb

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afbs. eddys. carters .will still work with a pile of junk in the bowls. i had two i had to scrape out the junk and rebuild for a customer and they work? water sat in them so long that it ate big pits in the bowls . holleys i do not think if that bad would have been saved

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

afbs. eddys. carters .will still work with a pile of junk in the bowls. i had two i had to scrape out the junk and rebuild for a customer and they work? water sat in them so long that it ate big pits in the bowls . holleys i do not think if that bad would have been saved

I think Pat has hit the crux of it. The Edelbrock/AFB/Carter design just seems to handle dirt and abuse a little better, maybe making them better for the average street driven car. Before we put the tripower on my one Sons 455 Olds convert, he had an aluminum hi-rise with a Holley 750 on it. He was constantly breaking down, and every time it was some very small piece of dirt in the carb. Pulled it off and put the trips on it, problem gone.

This may be an over simplification, and boils down to personal preference too, but from conversations I have had with rodders at shows and runs, this seems to be the general opinion. Now if I were building a drag car, I think the Holley would get the nod.


Don

Originally Posted by DennyW

Maybe not, but you can buy the Holley bowls cheap.

yes and metering blocks to? and do not forget the hand full of gaskets holleys do not like dirt i have used holleys but i fell out of love with them way to much stuff to buy for them GASKETS. but i have a 4500 9377 that works good and have had one for over 15 years

Originally Posted by DennyW

You just got to use the anti-stick on the gaskets. And, a good filter. My little 390 cfm on my Bronco II has been on there since 1991. I've never had to tear it down and clean it. All the carbs have there draw backs. You just have to know them well.

oh i do. but like i said way to many gaskets for way to many makes yes i know all about the no sticky gaskets. holley did not used them and it is fun for the first times getting them apart with the stock sticky ones i have mill the main bodys flat mill chocke horns off turned a dual feed out of a single feeds and have made a single pumper to a double pumper and done just about any thing you can do to a holley for me and for my customers. i do not like the price and the quality you get for it and buy jets gaskets power valves or power plugs and for $50 later you may have something that may work better that aQ jet or a carter or maybe not? like i said i use a 4500 holley and have had one for many moons but i do not like keeping $100 of holley stuff to do a 20 dollar job

you can do a lot more with the Eddy's than the Holley's if you know how. a 40.00 kit of rods and springs and you can make it do anything. almost that is.

I didn't want to say that, I thought I had the only carb. that could talk, and nobody would believe me.

or wet your plugs.

mine can whistle a tune sometimes.