thanks for the info deuce!
its not a new holley, thats for sure. shes old, a lill dinged up and crusty. i got it for a pretty good price on ebay. its funny too cause at the local 'yards theyre selling them used, beat up, as-is for about 50-60 bucks less than the cost of a brand new one to your door. sickening...
espescially since rebuild kits dont replace worn throttle shafts or warped base plates or damaged metering blocks cause someone drilled something they shouldnt have...
what cam are you using for your accelerator pump? it looks like the one on mine is red.... lots of grime and it looks like the sun bleached it out a bit.
my plan is to get some long tube headers eventually. i chose to go with an offenhauser intake cause im pretty sure it will bolt to my stock exhaust manifold. i hope this will provide adequate heat. with the headers im probably going to have to buy a heat plate, or if im super lucky, the offy has it built in. and put it all back together with some of those nice remflex carbon crush gaskets.
you guys seen those? i like em better than the thin steel felpro gaskets. they seal up very nice. only problem is they run about 50-60 bucks to your door, and mostly only "speed shops" carry them, not your napas or what have you.
so i did some google homework and read a few times that folks have been using the throttle pedal and cable assemblies off of later trucks like the 70's models,instead of spending alotta money on a fancy lokar setup or something similar.
naturally i was curious as to what type of setups other people had to connect the pedal to their carb.
you gotta pic of yours mebbe?
i was also wanting to ask about a wideband o2 sensor. my thought is it will tell me alot more about what is going on with my a/f mixture and give me a better understanding of what im doing to the mix when i tinker with the carb.
since im using the stock exhaust manifold, id only have one bung to get welded in. i have a good buddy of mine who could do it for a coupla beers, or at the very least,i can take it to the muffler shop.
my questions are: is there a particular kit that would work best for this application?
if i swap over to headers, am i going to have to buy a different kit, or will i be able to just add another sensor?
thanks again for your time.
