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Old 05-28-2022, 02:37 PM
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Tend to agree - although one of my better "street" arrangements is a pusher electric pump, robbmc mechanical, cheap regulator and a cliff qjet. I put the pusher in to shorten the qjet evaporation and the long cranking.

I'll say this - I think a holley 4150 carb survives better on the street with a decent mechanical fpump than a qjet with mechanical fuel pump. Qjets starve easy, IMHO.
Running out of fuel and dropping float level happens just as quick with a larger fuel bowl Holley...a different carb is not a fix for a bad fuel supply.

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Old 05-28-2022, 03:39 PM
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Then you have 12psi on the fuel pump dwell and 5 on the decay before the next pulse.

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