Since when does Edelbrock make a Holley carb?

[matthon]

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.

 

[GTX JOHN]

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)

 

[66 Sat]

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.

 

[dvw]

And everyone think the Chinese are the ones who copy everthing.
Doug

 

[Don67Satellite]

Uncle Tony claimed that Holley is going all in on EFI and will phase out carbs. Something like that anyhow. I won't rewatch to get it 100%. As with anything UTG, who knows.

 

[Photon440]

Uncle Tony claimed that Holley is going all in on EFI and will phase out carbs. Something like that anyhow. I won't rewatch to get it 100%. As with anything UTG, who knows.

I guess that means that in future, Holley carbs will be sold, but Holley won't be making them.

 

[HEMIB]

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 .

 

[69_A12_6BBL]

I saw one of these being used on Nick's Garage the other day and I must have looked like the RCA Victor dog, staring at that
thing all puzzled like I was looking at a space alien. I've never seen or heard they were making these?
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Bet thats a real Winner.... omfg

 

[Some Car Guy]

I talked to a carb guy in WA a couple years ago. Maybe it was Mike(or Mike is the dick in MO I didn’t care for) and was told if you call Holley for parts to an old carb, like 20 years or so in back, they’ll recommend you call him. Even though they aren’t affiliated.

 

[moparedtn]

Bet thats a real Winner.... omfg

On the dyno, it whipped a Six Pack setup pretty handily actually.
IIRC, he was going to go through the restored six pack carbs to see what could have been the matter
for another try at it later.