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Old Mar 15, 2015 | 12:58 PM
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Can anyone tell me about this carb?
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Can anyone tell me about this carb?
A little more info may get you more responses, but google it and it appears to be a Holly used on 1970 Camaros' and some Corvettes
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Old Mar 15, 2015 | 02:49 PM
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[QUOTE=brennano1;1589187226]Can anyone tell me about this carb?

1970 427, 454 engine, Corvette- 360,370,375, 450 H.P.
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I googled it but the responces were inconsistent.
Additional markings:
34r-2177b
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6333
4555
6t-3651
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The carburetor is a Holley.

The 3972121 number are key number that tie it to real cars. Google only knows what it is told, I matched the number in the book.
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The carburetor is a Holley.

The 3972121 number are key number that tie it to real cars. Google only knows what it is told, I matched the number in the book.


googled this # came back Holly carb. 1970 Camaro also LT1 Corvette
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I would surmise it is a service replacement by the fact that the format of the date code is a julian date instead of a year/month/week format that is typical of the early '70s Holleys.
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Old Mar 16, 2015 | 02:48 PM
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according to the corvette black book, that is a corvette LT1 1970 4-speed holley carb.. not sure it is also a camaro z/28 LT1 carb as I don't have that reference material. I would logically guess that might be true too.

I show it as a 780 CFM vacuum secondary

new carbs are available with some of these numbers that are not 1970 built carbs so do your homework on what all the other stampings may mean.
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Call holly and give them the numbers and they can tell you what it came on. I did this before I had my LT1 carb rebuilt. I did not want to spend the money to rebuild a non LT1 carb.
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Lemans Pete is correct. It's a 1970 LT1 service replacement. As he states, originals had 3 date characters; year, month and week. One of your other numbers, 6333, is a metering block. On the original, the other one would be 4519.
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I googled it but the responces were inconsistent.
Additional markings:
34r-2177b
3
6333
4555
6t-3651
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