carb gasket?
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Le Mans Master
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carb gasket?
i have an older holley that i'm putting on my edel performer 2101 intake... has the split in the middle (dual plane?)..... i got a gasket from murrays and it doesnt have the middle thin gasket portion......did they give me the wrong one?.....
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Is this 1/4" spacer a phenolic one ? Of course there should be gaskets...but I run a Holley 750 on an old school Eldelbrock intake with just gaskets and a heat shield...which...gives more hood clearance and no fuel boiling issues..."no spacer"
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Le Mans Master
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hmmm.... the spacer is a dark hard plastic like material....... i'll double check it all tomorrow in the light to see exactly what is going on..... i could have swore that my carb bolted up nicely without the spacer... maybe i'm wrong
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Originally Posted by onaqwst
hmmm.... the spacer is a dark hard plastic like material....... i'll double check it all tomorrow in the light to see exactly what is going on..... i could have swore that my carb bolted up nicely without the spacer... maybe i'm wrong
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Originally Posted by rihwoods
You are not wrong..often those thick spacers are used to prevent fuel in carb from "boiling"
When I run a Holley on my 73' with the Edelbrock 2101
I must use the phenolic spacer ...the one I have is about 1/2" thick and I use a gasket on either side (2 gaskets, top and bottom) of the spacer
The spacer I use has 4 holes, one for each venturi.
I suppose you could use the wide open spacer (no holes) but I have never tried it.
I do know that without the phenolic riser I did have problems with performance.
As soon as I added the riser the carb worked great.
Good luck
