Holley guru's- need advice

68sedan said

I meant nothing by what I said,I love to learn too.Trial and error is how I got my education,it's was costly.It's just that a good holley kit around here is $100.00 or so,or more if you want a trick kit.And a modified main body can mean trouble without an O2 and reading plugs(or dyno time) to see what the fuel curve is doing.Lean is mean.I have friend that thought he was a carb guy and melted a 440 from not knowing.I just thought with what you were asking it would save time, money and headaches for you to just get different/new.

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Thanks. I just paid $60 for an AED kit. The main body doesn't appear to be modified (from what I've measured). The air bleeds are stock size. It's just been converted to a 4-corner idle, which is pretty easy. I just need to rebuild it and swap jets, power valves, and squirters (which I have some of) and see what happens. Like you, this is how I learn. I enjoy doing things the hard way sometimes. I have a 66 that I learned to weld on, build a Dana 60 for, and so forth. All this was foreign to me at first, but I'm gettin there.