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[zrayr]

Originally Posted by blykins

We don't have that much time....

Business wise, I would LOVE to have guys come in with 4 Weber 48 IDA's on their American V-8 for me to tune and / or install. You have a customer that couldn't or wouldn't spend the time to learn how to deal with them, and you know he's going to pick up a completely better running car than he dropped off when you are finished. As long as you are upfront about the cost involved and don't get roped in to a specific number of hours of labor, the shop should be $$$ ahead at the end of the day.

As a professional motorcycle mechanic, I learned on the motorcycles of the '60's & '70's including the inline 6 cylinder, 6 carbs, Honda CBX 1000 circa 1979. Many of those early Japanese superbikes had no accelerator pump circuit in the carb system that could be "used" to cover up poor tuning by the technician. They had to be right. Weber's are a piece of cake in comparison.

As far as the Weber's only "looking good" goes, the torque increase is phenomal, and a little ol HiPo 289 needs all the extra torque it can get. Not to mention the 41 extra HP at the peak rpm.. Anyone who can't get a decent boost in peak HP with a set of Weber's vs. anybody's 4 barrel, just hasn't got them figured out yet.

PS, Blykins, thanks for getting those Ferrea big valves for me. So far so good, I'm hitting 6,500 rpm every chance I get.

Z.