hey i have the original 2 barrel carb on my comet... i have a 302 v8.. i was looking on craigslist and saw a 600 thunder seiries edelbrock carb for $150... i desperately need a new carb.. will that one fit? i dont want to waste money and be disapointed if it wont.. i also saw a 302 4 barrel intake for 40$.. is that cheap or should i just buy 1 new?
If you buy the intake then yes it'll fit. $40? seems good but what intake is it? just a stock one? aluminum? also when buying a used intake check the water ports, they usually rott out.
The guy i talked to said it was the stock 4 barrel intake that came with his gt 302 i guess.. he said it just needs to be cleaned up (http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/pts/1767001150.html) is the site i saw the intake at.
water ports (underside) and threaded holes (carb/water/vac) are big issues with old stock intakes. JMO...Frank
The pictures the seller posted shows a 2 bbl 302/289 manifold, a 351W 4bbl manifold and a 302/289 4bbl manifold - make sure you get the right one because the 351 manifold will not fit the 302.
unless you know where the carb and manifold came from there is always the risk of getting something that is bad/broken/incomplete or whatever...so, depending on your budget,I would just buy a new edlebrock intake and a holley 600 cfm single inlet 4 bbl carb. or if your budget doesnt permit that, save up until you can... IMO
I wondered how long it would take before somebody said "get a Holley." You have a point - you never know what you're getting when you buy a used carb. BUT, you can buy like 3-4 of them and a rebuild kit, and a jet/rod/spring kit, before buying a new carb even begins to make sense from a money perspective. And the Edelbrock's a really good carb for a street-driven car. Very easy to tune, dead simple to rebuild, and it's hard to mess one up to the point where a rebuild kit won't fix it. You'd have to crack the baseplate or something. I run a Holley DP now and I like its throttle response over the Edelbrock I ran previously, but it did take more work to tune the Holley, and even after a good tune it still doesn't feel quite as "civilized" as it used to. I could have handed you the keys to my car and you'd swear it was EFI. I never had to pump the gas to start it, never under any circumstances had to drive with both feet, there was never a bog or hesitation... Not saying my Holley is prone to all that either, but it took some work to get it right whereas the Edelbrock was only a matter of fine-tuning the transitions. They're both good carbs, but apples-to-apples, when you compare say a basic 600 vacuum secondary Holley with electric choke, (which I've also run on a daily driver) to an Edelbrock 1406, I really don't think one's any better than the other.
The edelbrock is a decent carb, especially if you don't want to tune your carb for a specific purpose. They used to be (when it was introduced by Carter) considered a performance carburetor but they didn't keep up with the many needs of racers. On the street there is little difference when comparing "off the shelf" carbs between it and Holley for general driving. I prefer the Holley too but then I always tune my carb to the engine and my driving style even on a daily driver. I prefer the diaphram accelerator pump over the piston pump because they seem to last longer but that is personal preference. Get the right manifold and put the carb of choice on it.
facelessnumber i would like to know more about ur engine combo .sounds alot like something i wanna build later on ,something strong but with air and drivability,the comp 268h you have do you like it and with the 1.7 rockers that sounds like a good liitle cam for a 302 .i have drove a chevy malibu with a basicly stock 350 with the 268h and it had a lot of low end torque.what size stall do u have and do u runn highway gears? i was thinking 3.55 or 3.80 would work well maybe 3.55 is the limit
I'd like to run ~3.55 gears, but it runs fine with the 3.0's I have right now. 2500 Hughes converter. Sounds good, idles well below 500, nice and lumpy. It does have a lot of low end torque. Feels nice and strong taking off and cruising, and it really wakes up on the highway. It pulls hard to about 6k and I don't even have headers, although I might later. For a driver I really like my combo No complaints that a Trac-Lock wouldn't fix.
i would like a set f afr 165 heads and with the weiand action-plus ,600 holley and the 268H i think would make a good combo with about 9.5-1 compression along with headers as well
