Carb question

Cleaning garage today and found Holley Carb I got when I bought the fairlane. I think it's a 780. My 302 I have been told will be 400 + HP is this still to big a carb? Here are numbers on carb.. holley carb 3310-1 2582. Thanks

 

Vacuum Secondary, first series 780 as you thought.

You can run a little bigger vac secondary and get away with it. The only time you'll probably see any benefit will be above 5000 RPM over a 600 cfm carb and the 600 would be better at lower RPM.

If you have a lot of gear a big carb will work better, too.

SPark

 

Not planning alot of gear.. Wanting like 3:73 gear behind a T5 5 speed.

 

The 780 will work. Won't have as much throttle response down low as a smaller carb, but it will work. I ran a 3310 750 on an Explorer 5.0 for a year or so, never had a complaint about it. Only reason I ran it was I had no other carb available.

 

3.73 will get you in the power band quick enough with a T-5. You should be fine.

SPark