been searching for a couple of hours now and can't tell if there's a difference between carbs for a V8 as compared to an I6 besides the mounts and cfms... Anyone have some input on this. Found these links while searching if it helps someone else as well... (trying to contribute alil too) http://www.carburetion.com/adaptors.asp http://www.carburetion.com/_inv/invtocartpic.asp?part1=TD2041 http://www.classicinlines.com/PCdyno.asp they looked useful
Generally speaking...Carbs are all the same, in as much as they all meter fuel/air into an engine.There are different designes...EG: Holley carbs/Edelbrock carbs etc...Carburetors are application specific as far as OEM is concerned.Performance carbs like Holley are tailorable to specific apps from a general base design.As far as ford I6 and V8 apps are concerned...Yes they are very different in design/application and appearance but...They all use the same basic principal of air flow/velocity to put fuel into an engine.Hope this helps you some.
that helps alot for my understanding of carbs! I'm reading til my eyes turn red, smoking a cig and then going back at it trying to learn all I can. The origonal reason for my post was because someone said they had a 2bbl carb for a V8 I could get off them, but they didn't they work on I6's. I didn't know either. wasn't even sure if there was a difference. k, I need nicotine. I'll be back in a sec to reread what I just wrote and hopefully have some more to add. Thanks again - I like to think I'm moving in the right direction with all this lol.
http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=36020 Read this...Its the carb generally used for a 1V to a 2V swap.
yup. read that a few times and all 13 pages of posts lol. Also read the first 7 pages of results when searching "carb" in the search. I think I'm either over analyzing this or I'm just making this harder on myself than need be. Does it look like that to you? I want to do it right.
Researching a direction to go in or a problem that needs to be solved is the best route IMHO.Just give yourself room and time to digest it all so you can make a desicion.An informed desicion is allways better than a guess.Good luck!!! PS: Remember, the only dumb question is the one that isnt asked.
Thanks for the input. Been struggling a bit the last couple of weeks. I just know I'll beat myself up about it for as long as I use the setup if I don't make the best overall decision. Was doing well with this maverick stuff until the wheel and carb issues. Thanks again for the encouragement and info.
You can pretty much run any carb on there you want to, it's just a matter of hooking up the linkage and mounting the carb. Mounting can be done a couple different ways. Clifford offers some cool products including Weber 2 barrel kits and headers. http://www.cliffordperformance.net/ Offy offers quite a bit of 6 cylinder parts. http://www.offyparts.com/index.php/cPath/1_6 Transdapt also offers a selection of carb adapters. http://www.tdperformance.com/default.asp
