Looking for possible carb recommendations...

rumblefish360 said
IMO, I'd look for the big primary T-Q.

Anyway, a stock 77 - 440 isn't exactly a power house and the year is a bogged down engine. Dead on ratio and emmissions, etc... I have a 78 - 400, it's another dead on arrival engine.

Gear ratio has some say in this, but a 8-1/4????

OK, your not goona like this one but.

650 - 700 max.

Yeah, I know the engine as it is now is no power house, so I wasn't expecting much... Why so small though? Aren't the stock Thermoquads on the 440 850cfm?

yellowdartdave said
Get the Thermo rebuilt !!! You don't have to change anything and 800 cfm is nothing to sneeze at.
The small primaries are great for cruising and good gas mileage and when the secondaries open up, they will try to suck your hood in.

The Thermoquad was just rebuilt. I wasn't the one that did it and know next to nothing about carbs, so I don't know if it was done right or not. All I know is that when I tried to fire the car up for the first time it started pouring gasoline out of where the straw is pointed. It sucks too, I really wanted a Thermoquad on it, but I need to get this car started asap, so it looks like I'll be picking up an eddy tomorrow.