matty wardle
mopar dedicated
whats the quickest et,s you,ve seen with a single edelbrock carby....i kinda treat holleys like i do chevys with abit of disdain,i have a 451 stroker and i want to go quick with an edelbrock
12.34 on an Edelbrock 750 #1411.
You can go fast with an eddy carb, however, you will be leaving power on the table. How much power really depends on the combo.
Walk around the pits at the drag strip and see what most of the faster cars are using for carburetors...I would be willing to bet you find more than 90% of folks using Holley style carbs, because they just make more power. Usually the only ones going fast with other carbs are only doing so because they are limited by what they can use for their race class (like stock classes).
So yes, you can go fast with an eddy carb...but you could probably go faster with a well prepped Holley.
The dominance of Holley carbs as much less to do with design than it does available sizes. How many fast cars do you see out there running carbs less than 800 CFM.
Back to back, take a tuned 600 Eddy and an equally prepped Holley, put them on the same engine on the same day, and it's going to be a toss up which one goes quicker. I always choose the Carter/Eddy over a Holley WHEN PRACTICAL. The Carter design is so much more user friendly once you get to know them.
What about mechanical secondaries on a carter or Eddy.?
I don't have enough vacuum for vacuum secondaries.
Also, couldn't a Thermoquad be a decent performance choice?
Flyfish... Ill guess its prolly a 750 on e85 i thought you beeded a bigger carb since it uses more fuel...but ive seen 10 second cars run 650s. But to the OP at the yellowbullet i saw a 70 cuda with a hemi, it had duel edelbrock carbs and was deeeeep in the 10's and i think he cracked 9s, srry its sideways but this is his car
It started life as a Holley 650dp. I put in a proform main body (making it 750 cfm), ran it for years, then last year I converted it over to e85 with Robmix metering blocks....my point is, you don't have to have a HUGE carb to go fast, but you do need to know what you are doing or your car will be never live up to its FULL potential.