Thoughts on Carter Carbs
I was at the track yesterday with this combination and it's worked for me over the years. Of course I've had the motor out of the car for a year and using a different kind of fuel so it's starting to run much richer and I need to do some more jetting again. All in all though it's been very tunable and with the aid of a wideband O2 sensor which I was able to get Summit to price match eBay or somewhere and get it down to about $150. I think that's really been the key to my confidence in tuning. I went outside and just took a couple pictures of mine so you can see maybe get an idea of how my Progressive linkage is setup. It is nicer I guess on the street and all and actually it hasn't worked bad on the track. I've noticed no difference really on my Time Slips when I don't have it hooked up Progressive cuz basically I'm slamming It Wide Open LOL and at that point the motor just kind of takes what it wants. Very mannerful though if it's hooked up progressively, they can just get a little touchy when it's not LOL
Okay I will list the photos hopefully in order the back one is the 625 Carter performance or whatever and the front one is an Edelbrock 1406 with the choke disconnected. Oddly enough and I know this may not make sense but I just used all the Jets and same settings and metering rods and metering Rod springs for the Edelbrock I just put them also in the Carter to make them match and it seemed to work? Now the experts jump and say I did something nuts but I don't know but it works. Kind of try to do the same exact thing on both carburetors. Anyways if you need any explanation on how I hook up the linkage either progressively or 1 to 1 (obviously that's easy) and this is way easier linkage WISE option than having two Holley carburetors sideways. I'm not sure if it looks as cool as having two Holley carburetors sideways though and when I think about it.
I was at the track yesterday with this combination and it's worked for me over the years. Of course I've had the motor out of the car for a year and using a different kind of fuel so it's starting to run much richer and I need to do some more jetting again. All in all though it's been very tunable and with the aid of a wideband O2 sensor which I was able to get Summit to price match eBay or somewhere and get it down to about $150. I think that's really been the key to my confidence in tuning. I went outside and just took a couple pictures of mine so you can see maybe get an idea of how my Progressive linkage is setup. It is nicer I guess on the street and all and actually it hasn't worked bad on the track. I've noticed no difference really on my Time Slips when I don't have it hooked up Progressive cuz basically I'm slamming It Wide Open LOL and at that point the motor just kind of takes what it wants. Very mannerful though if it's hooked up progressively, they can just get a little touchy when it's not LOL
Okay I will list the photos hopefully in order the back one is the 625 Carter performance or whatever and the front one is an Edelbrock 1406 with the choke disconnected. Oddly enough and I know this may not make sense but I just used all the Jets and same settings and metering rods and metering Rod springs for the Edelbrock I just put them also in the Carter to make them match and it seemed to work? Now the experts jump and say I did something nuts but I don't know but it works. Kind of try to do the same exact thing on both carburetors. Anyways if you need any explanation on how I hook up the linkage either progressively or 1 to 1 (obviously that's easy) and this is way easier linkage WISE option than having two Holley carburetors sideways. I'm not sure if it looks as cool as having two Holley carburetors sideways though and when I think about it.
