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Old Jan 23, 2007 | 03:26 PM
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bg carbs just came out with an inline 4 barrle carb. and hes claiming massive hp gains over standard carbs. it is selling for about 1700$ with manifold . i mean i know its new but dam!
bg demon= 320$
air gap=275$
= 595$ give or take for area and polished or not!
man that is a heavy blow to the wallet just to have a funny shaped carb. and to top it off hes claiming its " new ". ive seen this before
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Old Jan 23, 2007 | 03:41 PM
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Ford (Autolite) had one in the 60's.
Not uncommon to be copied and improved on.
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Ford (Autolite) had one in the 60's.
Not uncommon to be copied and improved on.
yea i know. but hes claiming its " new "
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Old Jan 23, 2007 | 05:10 PM
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Where is the link/ I did not see it on the BG site
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it just came in the march edition of popular hot rodding
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Old Jan 25, 2007 | 03:58 AM
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Lokar is already advertising (Rod & Custom) kickdown linkage for it.
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Old Jan 25, 2007 | 05:31 AM
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That's not all that far from a decent fuel injection system. It looks cool, but I'll pass in favor of complete tunability and power/timing curve control.
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Old Jan 25, 2007 | 06:52 AM
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There is a write up on it in the March issue of Popular Hot Rodding. The article is available on the online service at www.popularhotrodding.com They link it to the original Ford design in the article.
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