I've been having nothing but trouble with carburetors. I had an edelbrock 650 on my bb chevy street vehicle (mech secondaries). It is fine when you are cruising or driving very conservatively (easy throttle transitions). If you try and have some fun and get on it real hard and real quick (fast transition) you may as well just forget about it. It will pop super loud and hesitate for a couple seconds and by the time it catches up with itself there's no point in staying on it.
I also had an old holley 750 (vac sec) that I recently got a rebuild kit for. I put it on this weekend and tried it out. It had noticeable more power when accelerating through gears (I have a manual), but between shifts when I got off it seemed kind of strange. But still, if I was at light throttle and tried to get on it real quick it would just dog out and shake.
I am 26 years old and grew up at the tail end of carburetion, so maybe I just take for granted how well fuel injection works because that's all I really knew. . .but I don't think carb's should be this crappy.
Is it possible to have a carbureted engine that does not bog out under rapid throttle transitions or is that a pipe dream?