holley carb question.

convx4 said
I'm thinking of trying one of these carbs out.

"Our new universal one barrel carburetor is built to OEM specs with parts that are Ethanol resistant to allow it to perform and last longer with modern fuel mixtures."

http://www.daytonaparts.com/univ.html

Im not really looking to buy new. Still thinking of going to a 2bbl or 4. Keeping the cost down as much as possible but I don't want to skimp around either.

cudajim said
I had the same problem with my Holley; one of the fingers broke off so I used another carb for parts and put it back together. I also bought a new float because mine was saturated. I'm pretty sure the float made the difference in the way it ran (which was good).

I will take a closer look at the float tonight. I thought it looked ok but I wasnt really paying to much attention to it specifically once I saw the little finger thing was gone.

BillGrissom said
If it doesn't work, PM me. I have 2 Holley 1920's in the garage I could sell reasonably. I was thinking of playing with them on my 64 slant, though cable-throttle type (both? I forgot) and my car still has the rod. One looks almost new. I found it a few weeks ago in the trunk of a M-B 300D I was picking at Ecology in SoCal to fix my son's car while he met us at Disney (if I grabbed someone's stash, sorry you snoozed.). It has the upper vapor vent tube for later cars. Haven't tried either, but in-town and takes 10 min to swap a carb to try. Don't want you pulling your hair dealing with the bad idle like I did for years in my 69 Dart. It ran so smooth with the final good Holley 1920.

This sounds like a good plan to me if everything else fails. Thank you for the offer. Nice to see someone in the same town pop in :icon_smi: I currently have the actual part coming in the mail thanks to DustyRoads. Once I put it all back together we will see.