Carb

[gimpyrobb]

The 366 I am putting in has a smashed carb. What brands are easy to work on? I'm leaning toward a truck avenger by Holley, but I am unsure. TIA.

[Doug]

A quality rebuilt q-jet will work much better off road than a Holley IMO. Should get many years of service out of one before you have to worry about doing anything to it.

Never been real impressed with Holleys, always seemed to be replacing a power valves or dinking with them one way or the other...never had one I didn't have to mess with.

Just my experiences.

[Barrman]

I love my Edelbrock, but it doesn't love big hills that much. Mine is the car version. They have an off road version I have never used. Edelbrock also sells brand new Q-jets.

Tom used a Holley Avenger at TTC by the way.

[gimpyrobb]

Tim, I heard you could get floats and needles to make a car carb work like the off road model.

[Elohim1]

From what I remember when I looked into the truck avenger carbs. The earlier ones had some problems, but the newer ones people seemed to like.

[Fastfrankie]

I always liked Holleys but they seem much more thirsty than the Edelbrock 600's...I just put an Edelbrock non-emission 600 electric choke on my Dodge D350 flatbed with a 360 and 4 speed/4.56's and it purrs...

[LuckyPabst]

I'll echo that I was a Holley fan - they're quite simple and much loved but I swapped one out for an Edelbrock performer and really liked the ease of adjustment and no need to spill fuel when you open up the float bowl. The manual also gives you some nice charts to fine tune the carb for economy or power.

Chris

[compexp]

Gimpy, check the junkyards for a TBI setup - anything early 90s should be a basic TBI and will solve the off-camber issues.

Then you'd need the elec fuel pump and a fuel return line.

[george walker]

i agree i never liked the holley carbs either they always seemed over jetted and wasted fuel mileage I usually prefered carter models and the edelbrock is just a copy of a carter model the AFB