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Originally Posted by Sirrotica

FWIW, every dirt track car that I raced against, without exception, had a holley on it, so how is it I beat a whole bunch of chevys, fords, and mopars with a Q Jet, on a Pontiac, with dual radiators, a T400 transmission? No one else raced anything close to what I did, and just like clockwork, I beat them every week. If you can't think outside of the box, you're doomed to be in the box.

Just to clarify I have run holley carbs on street and race cars, but don't like their tendency to load up when idling. On a street car it has been my experience that you have to keep adjusting them because they don't seem to be able to hold adjustments, such as float level. Plus the tendency of the accelerator pumps to leak fuel onto the intake manifold if the diaphragm leaks, and the bowl gaskets, and bowl screw gaskets tend to dry out and leak fuel. Been plenty of engine fires attributed to holley fuel leaks.

You don't need a holley to win, you, like many others, have been brainwashed to believe you do. The engine does not know what name is on the side of the carb, and it could care less. As long as it gets the correct fuel mixture, at the correct time, it will perform just as well with whatever carb is on it.

One other thing, I never paid for any of my race car carburetor cores, just because of people that think the same way as you do. I was given a bunch of QJ carb cores because someone believed they were going to double their horsepower by switching to a high dollar aftermarket carburetor, and I got their scraps for free.

The cores must be modified for racing, or even high performance street use, it's called sweat equity. If your wallet isn't fat, you work harder to use what you have, and keep the difference.........

Wow. Take a pill. And re-read my last post.
I also have lots of qjet cores and have no problem using them in the apropriate application. My comments were directed to those who have been "brainwashed" that the comp series edelbrock is the ultimate carb. It is not.