this carb any good?

[bbc]

this is on clist for 30 bucks, says it needs rebuilt and its a 600, anyone know if these are any good??

 

[79K10]

looks like a holley double pumper but i could be wrong... I ran one on a 305 back in the day, edelbrock perf intake and headers, ran good for me. guess you wont know till you open it up, rebuild and try to run it.

 

[crazy4offroad]

See if you can get the model # from the guy and look it up, find out if it has the blow-proof power valve.

 

[bucket]

Looks like a stock Holley that was OE on a Ford or something. I'd avoid it (and I'm pro-Holley).

 

[Jims86]

Looks like a stock Holley that was OE on a Ford or something. I'd avoid it (and I'm pro-Holley).

Cant beat a Q-jet, which is what your truck should have, 750cfm. Dont mess with it unless it needs to be rebuilt. The General knew what he was doing.

 

[bbc]

lol q-***** are the worst for me, i gone thru countless of them, half the times the float stuck

 

[crazy4offroad]

I never liked the q-jet because of how complicated it can be to get them tuned right. Edelbrocks are much easier in my opinion, and as you can see opinions vary. Q-jets are nice because of the vacuum secondaries and make good power/economy compared to the mechanical secondaries of the Edelbrock which just dumps fuel down your engine's gullet but the negatives outweighed the positives for me.

 

[bucket]

I agree, the q-jet is a great carb IF you know the ins and outs of them, and can get them tuned right. It's best just to go with what you know how to repair/tune.

 

[Camo]

Q-jets are good, but very expensive to test adn tune, I am a die hard holley man, but I have ran a few Q jets over the years that ran fine.