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    CARBURETORS SIZING APPLICATION TO YOUR

    Sep 08, 2020 5 minutes
    by Jon Chabot

    Once you’ve decided on the size of engine for your latest project, you might also consider how your choices af fect the best carburetors to use. It’s not a simple task, and there are lots of variables that can impact the type of power curve you might want. Let’s look at some choices.

    For the purposes of this article, we’ll be looking at only dual carburetors. A lot of folks think that a single two-barrel of some sort will be “simpler” or “easier to tune” than duals, but this is simply not the case. For example, a single IDF-style Weber is one of the trickiest things on the planet to get tuned correctly. If you think that I’m not a fan, you would be correct. Please… just get a carburetor sync tool and learn how

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