Slant 6 4bbl Carb Selection

for what it's worth, if it's primarily a street motor with a mild cam, you may want to even look at the Aussiespeed 2bbl manifold that has a 2300 holley bolt pattern. might work better and give you more efficiency for the street. another consideration would be since a new AVS is $500, for a street driven vehicle, especially since the aussiespeed manifold doesn't have provisions for manifold heat, it might be worth at least looking at the Holley Sniper or similar EFI systems. just food for thought....eventually I'd like to build up my slanty with some head porting and milling, perhaps deck the block to get compression in the 9:1 range, a cam with about [email protected] duration max (likely one of of the two smallest hughes whiplash cams), clifford shorties, and the 2bbl hurricane running either a holley sniper system, or maybe even trying to do MPFI utilizing a late 90's early 2000's truck throttle body (since I have a complete 318 magnum intake sitting on my garage shelf)....
I have been running a Performer 600 on my 289 and a Performer RPM Airgap manifold. Fuel economy was pretty good with 2.79 rear gears. I am rebuilding the engine and will install the annular boosters from the AVS2 650. The secondaries are where the extra CFM come from.
I think it was The Carburetor Shop website tells that some early Autolite carbs had annular boosters and gave excellent fuel economy. These would be smaller carbs when engine displacements were less. Many 4 barrel carbs give very good fuel economy if you refrain from getting the secondaries open.