[DeTomaso] Holley Carb jet extension-stalls on braking

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Will, 

Oops! I was dozing in class again. Are you saying that your carb-braking problem did or did not go away with the properly flat and level carb using your angled phenolic spacer?? IIRC, the results of other Pantera owners with flat and level carbs are not always beneficial........ 

Curious, Chuck Engles


---- wkooiman at earthlink.net wrote:
>For what it's worth...
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>I made an angled spacer out of a 2" plastic (phenolic) spacer. I didn't want to cut the intake. It's a relatively rare A331 intake for A3 heads - Torker style. It's worth more with the angle, and I plan on selling it one of these days.
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>At any rate, I was going to just bend the studs. I didn't want to redrill the intake. Remember, I want to sell this intake? The bent studs didn't work so well. I tried installing the studs at the normal angle. The carb fit fine, with normal nuts and normal washers. I was worried that the nuts would be at a weird angle, but it wasn't very bad at all.
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>The carburetor studs don't have to provide a ton of clamping force. As some have said, the carb studs are only there to hold the carb in place when the engine isn't running.
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>If I planned on keeping this intake long-term, I would have milled it flat, though. I mostly wanted to see if the stalling problem would go away if the carb were leveled.