Hey guys, just coming back here for some advice on carbs. Last year, I noticed my Holley was weeping fuel at the end of the season. It wasn't a lot, and it runs fine, but I'd rather buy a new carb than rebuild this one. I'm comfortable rebuilding them, but it's a lot of effort to wind up with another great working but ugly carb, since I have no engine cover I'd really rather spring for a fully polished version. Do you guys have any suggestions?

78 350 Block, .30 over, weind xlerator intake, not sure the cam specs, and Stellings headers. Gear drive.

quick fuel

https://www.holley.com/products/fuel...k_fuel/marine/

Keep it up, Summer's around the snow banks. Loved Your video.

Still have both, lol.

Here is an edit from last weekend:

Also, wound up going with a Holley Street Demon, full polished. Install went okay but I lost 400rpms from the top end, and ther's a bit of a stumble as it gets on throttle. Have to mess with it more.

Thanks for the update Rob. Best of luck with the Holley carb. I checked out some other videos on your channel and really enjoyed your adventures with the BadAstro conversion van. Look forward following your resto of the '77 Targa. Wish You guys a continued wonderful summer.

I remember this build, boat still looks great in the video posted! I remember you from Madison area. Where do u boat mostly now? Any issues with noise on Madison lakes? Just curious?

Thanks! I need to use that thing more, but covid has sort of turned me into a homebody this year at least. It's doing great towing the boat tho!

I actually just finished another video of the carb upgrade, pretty epic audio near the end. This should really be applicable to anybody with an older carb'd boat.


Thanks! The interior was redone 2 years ago, the original vinyl was just getting too old/dried out and starting to split everywhere, the foam was failing, etc. The new stuff looks incredible! I moved north of Milwaukee near west bend, so now most of my boating takes place on Pike Lake or Big Cedar Lake. Honestly super depressed about it, big cedar has a super lame 35mph speed limit and is overrun by police officers, and pike lake is tiny. The chain of lakes in madison is awesome, but I can't afford to live there.

o wow, that was a move, I work in stoughton but wife is in Menominee falls, when we lived in Jonson creek we boated rock lake a lot in lake mills. This is similar to where u run now, kinda boring. We did tow out to the Madison chain. I agree that was fun! It’s been probably 6 yrs since we have done that. Now we live in pewaukee and only hit that lake due to young kids. It’s fun and pretty big . You should try coming down. Not sure how the noise police will be though, some day I will find out, I got an 18’ jet I am rebuilding with OT headers also.. u should venture down!

New video just dropped; on water testing and tuning to optimize performance. Lots of high speed runs!