Corvette C2

[Arde]

You ran out of gas ?!
The Marx Brothers three famous aviators speech comes to mind.
Once SFDon was dyno testing one of his builds near my office, so I joined him. You could see the fuel gauge go down as he drove.
We barely made it to the gas station, we put more gas but we forgot the car...

 

[Belgiumbarry]

haha, yes, even wifey asked me at a certain moment if i still had gas.... do not worry i replyed , i filled up this morning.....
So far average is 28L/100 km....

 

[Belgiumbarry]

finaly succeeded to tune the tri-power Holley carbs. Have now one smooth acceleration. Only still on the rich side , so now trying smaller jets.
I do understand "at the time" many swapped that tripower for a 4 barrel. Now we have a AFR gauge, dyno etc... which make it more easy to found out what's happening in there..... PITA is one have to demount the carbs for jetting , i'm used to Webers were all can be done from above .....

Last dyno was perfect curve , 465 HP and 805 NM ( 594 ft lb) ... so more then enough to get me in trouble

Fun pic what it "could" be with Weber IDF44's.... but they are to high , there is no room for adapter manifolds. One should butcher ( cut&weld) a tripower intake .... but those go $ 2k to 4k .... so not direct a option to have a fun experiment.

 

[boonies]

As trouble free as a 4 barrel Holly EFI would be, it is hard to beat the look of a set of tri-power carburetors!