holley carbs

1BADGTS said

The web site for Holley is Holley.com. There is a lot of useful technical info there.
I worked at Holley in Detroit for 10 years during the late 70's. Man, I missed the good years by 10 plus years. I used to hear some perty good stories from some of the older engineers. I would eat lunch with Zora Duntov in the caferteria when he was doing intake manifold design there after he retired from GM. I would bug him about my '69 'vette...:pirat:

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Pretty cool! Even though I consider Zora the enemy, I would have loved to pump that guy for info. BTW, when I was in HS a friend of mine's aunt had a red '69 vette. She was absolutely beautiful and so was her car. :) IIRC, it was a 396 but that was a long time ago.

You're absolutley right, the Holley site has just about everything anyone would need to know including theory, list # pdf, and tuning help. I cut my teeth on Holleys as a young hot rodder in the early 80's and I just haven't found a reason to run any other carb. Shoot, I'm even running a list 4777 double pumper on my 5000# truck which is not supposed to work at all and the response after tuning is phenomenal. Zero bog and plants me right in the seat IMMEDIATELY off idle. I bought the carb used and of course, the throttle shaft bores were worn so I replaced it with a Quick Fuel base plate.

I think Holleys get a bad name due to people getting a used carb with blown power valves, bad needles and seats, unscrupulous drilling by a previous owner and just plain bad tuning. A little reading goes a long way.

Holleys have been around since before my late father was born and he was born in 1921. I'm proud to have a Holley ex-employee on this site and I hope everyone else feels the same way. Have a beer on me my friend and I hope to meet you someday to hear the stories from the Holley plant. :cheers: