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Since when does Edelbrock make a Holley carb?

I wish I kept that carb, had it on a few engines and it was always trouble free, easy to tune, and seemed to perform better.

I noticed the Summit version has the fuel lines coming in at 45 degrees, where the Holley was straight.

Also, I remember the Holley had a groove in the top of the base with a rubber gasket within it, no flat paper gasket like the Summit carb, never gave me a problem sealing.

That's how I recall it, can't even find a pic online though.
 
I believe Summit now sells that as their house brand carb.
I believe it is a remake of a carb that came on many Fords many decades ago.

They make an 800 Double Pumper and we have run that very successfully
on our 68 Valiant that can runs 10s as driven on the street. it is not very
tunable other than jets and pumps but ran definitely better than anything else
out of the box. we bought it years ago and it was 1/2 or less the cost of
anything else. (See Racer's section last week to see pictures of it)
 
I guess? Well, one thing is for sure - the Holleys I've seen the last few years have experienced quite the slide in quality,
so maybe Edelbrock sees an oppotunity there.
As a counterpoint to this I bought an Edelbrock AVS2 just over a year ago and it's now sitting in a box. Just never performed properly, blocked annular boosters, maybe casting issues, wasn't at all what I was expecting. Bought the tuning kit, followed the tuning charts and always felt as flat as anything. No life in it at all. Lots of back and forth with Edelbrock and not impressed with their customer service either.
So I bought another Holley...650 Double Pumper. Pulled it apart before I installed it, great quality, clean as a whistle inside the float bowls, was put togther nicely, and has been a dramatic change to the car. Once I get some numbers at the track I'll write up a review.
I think Holley's quality fell off post-pandemic but has since been rectified.
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And everyone think the Chinese are the ones who copy everthing.
Doug
 
I have a Holley on my 340 it has all the standard Holley linkages it has made in Japan on it must have been under license .
 
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