Carb Selection
 

Looking for advice on the brand of carb to select for my build and why. Holley, Demon, Quickfuel etc.
I am looking for an 800/850 cfm.

Thanks

Holleys are tried and true, but Quickfuels are very nice out of the box.

Ayuh,..... Answers will come easier, if We knew what motor, 'n application yer gonna use it on,.....

Can't go wrong with the New Holley or Quickfuel. Unless this is an all out Maximum effort deal I can't see any benefit from a "custom carb". Me personally I don't care for the Barry Grant stuff.

If you're buying new, call Patrick at Pro Systems. The carb will be custom made and tuned to your application. If I remember right, his prices are about what you are going to pay for an off the shelf Holley HP but it comes dialed in for you.

Also if your buying an HP series carb, the number is the not relate to the CFMs. So an HP 950 does not flow 950 CFMs- more like 830 CFM's. I know that is what my Pro System carb flowed and it used a 950 body.

I can get a Pro-Systems for $300 less than a Holley or Quick Fuel and I would not buy one. The last one I had I gave it away. My cost on HP 1000 was $625 and I literally gave it away for free cause I was done trying to make it right.

Mine were perfect but they were $250 ea more than a quick fuel, that a lot of people seem to be having great luck with.

i am not a fan of pro systems carbs and i won,t get into why.imo the quik fuel carb is the best value in out of the box carbs today.

I thought it was the motor. I have a couple neighbors one has an old Mopar one old Chevy bolted it on their motor. Same thing. Messed with it until I had enough.

I had Dale at CFM build my carb.
Lives 10 minutes from my house and has been building holley stuff for a long time!

Sure, I could have bought a "box" carb and saved a couple hundred bucks and, I bet it would have been ok but, when I have a problem, question or need advice, Dale answers the phone and sets me straight. To me, that's worth the price of admission alone!

I bought a brand new 850 marine Quickfuel carb off eBay from Quickfuel, and then sent it to a carb shop for fine tuning who discovered that it had an 830 body on it and some mismatched parts inside. Otherwise I've loved the carb.

The only experiance I had with a Pro systems carb, was on a blow thru setup, that was built for the application. It was no where near being close out of the box. Not even in the ballpark.

The quick fuels are nice carbs. The billet metering blocks and baseplate is nice. And everything is adjustable, down to the emulsion bleeds, power valve restrictors, etc.

Interesting, the one I had built worked perfectly. I can understand your frustration though if what you got, didn't work.

In drag racing it's been long known nitrous carbs pat is pretty good, blow thru, don't bother. I had great luck with csu for those. But that isn't what the op is looking for. I think a quick fuel or Holley hp series will work well for the $$

Jamie, heard good things about csu for the blow thru's as well. We ditched the prosystems for a C&S aerosol carb, was much much better. Roger was great to work with as well during dyno tuning, as his carbs work a bit differently than most.

I've only read a little bit on the aerosol carbs. Heard good things. Maybe someday I'll get to you with one

My buddy gets em at a super price, I couldn`t pass it up. Got myself some 1050`s
Quickfuel gets my vote, nice plus over Holley is they already come boost referenced

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Nice to be that close. And yes, he's been around forever.

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can I say go efi and some big azz throttlebodies.

Just once. :party-smiley-004:

SBS Do yourself a favor and listen to Vintage Chromoly and call Dale @ http://cfmperfcarbs.com He will get you exactly what you need . He is great to work with and knows what he is talking about.