[Cliff R]

"The E carbs are typically what the Motortrend show "Garage Squad' puts on everything. The "head mechanic" guy Joe is always giving the Qjet a bad rap."

I saw one of those videos recently on another site, removing a stock intake and carb from a smog era Olds 350 engine. He went into some long drawn out explanation as to how great the E-carbs are and that the engine will run and work better everyplace with the smaller carb on it. He also (and he's completely 100 percent wrong here) that the wider spread bore intake HURTS power compared to an aftermarket square flange intake with narrower plenum areas and tighter turns into the intake runners. He also went into some useless explanation about engine CFM and web base CFM calculators and why the smaller carb was a better choice, blah, blah, blah, wrong once again but in 50 years who's really going to care? I also seriously doubt that he will be around when that long length of rubber hose from the hack-sawed fuel line slips off the end or rots and starts leaking ending up with a MAJOR engine fire and loss of that vehicle....LOL

Anyhow, it's just a "dog and pony" show for the most part, full of all sorts of useless information to get folks to continue to dump money into aftermarket parts that are poorly designed and low quality....FWIW.

In any case the Edelbrock carburetors find their way onto 3 out of 4 (if not more) engines you'll see with the hoods up at a car show or cruise for ONE reason, and one reason only........they are DIRT CHEAP. One has to realize here that with the Internet/social media that PRICE drives the market, not quality. With few exceptions Google is used to source out the lowest possible price on nearly everything purchased. If you don't think so look around at all your local retailers closing the doors and the carriers running their arses off to keep up with Amazon shipments. All the other secondary reasons, like folks being miss-informed, not skilled enough to make what they have work, believing old/outdated information that still exists to this day on factory parts, etc, is really not why they end up with a new shiny intake and carburetor instead of the factory parts, it's about being CHEAP!

I'd also mention here that the folks making all those parts are marketing genius's and have convinced at least 3 out of 4 if not more of the uneducated customer base that using their parts will now allow them to leap taller buildings and walk on more water than what the removed. It's been that way since I got into this hobby nearly 50 years ago and unlikely to change anytime soon......Cliff