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Old 06-04-2015, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Gaz64 View Post
That's an interesting point.

How many flats down from the "true level" do you set your floats Ray?
It depends on the car of course. With my vintage Paxton GT350's running a Holley 650 Street HP carb, I would often have to turn at least 4 flats from the stock setting, sometimes a full turn. This was not a supercharger issue, the carbs ran the same way with the blower disconnected. Maybe it's a cautious approach on Holleys part, but the float levels seems to be consistanly way too high on most every Holley carb I've met.

Even when running the supercharged cars on high speed long distance endurance runs of over 100 miles at maximum RPM (In west Texas) I have never ran the float chamber dry with a dramacally lowered float.

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