simmer down royce!
Royce

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Simmer down dubyuh. Nobody's trying to rain on your parade or call your experience into question or account. I am definitely not trying to start a flame war here on the cougar message boards.
First of all, go reread my post. I wasn't attacking you. I was just explaining why I prefer what I prefer. I mean, I'm the new guy here, but I thought that was generally okay in the USA. The reasons you gave for refuting edelbrock are the same logic skills I have to refute at the track from the Small block chevy contingent when they see my ford product.
The Edelbrock vs. Holley debate rages on everywhere you go these days.
In my opinion, the Holley/Demon contingent are the blessed children of decades of collective intelligence. Meaning that, more people have wrenched on, written books about, screwed up, and gotten it right with the Holley set up. So, there's a bigger base of knowledge.
No racer worth his salt is going to take a product that is unproven when the relative big bucks are on the line. Like a Carter, Quadrajet, Autolite, or Stromberg carburetor. Incidentally, I run a 600 edelbrock on my cleveland powered cougar and have road raced, drag raced, street raced, and driven cross country in it for the last 16 years. And I've collected contingency money in the process from edelbrock. I may not have a garage full of 427 cars, but I have had the same test bed and engine for the last 16 years. And it doesn't get much more scientific than that, does it?
Of course when you get away from the regular Holley speres of influence where the fans eat fried chicken and get drunk in the stands, you get away from Holley products into more sophisticated carbs like solex, CV, Keihin, Mikuni, and Weber. Not to say that Holleys can't be found on lots of SCCA or IMSA cars, but try to find a 911 Porsche with a 750DP on it. Even cleveland powered panteras tend to go with a weber setup.
Enough bench racing. Back to dual quads...
The modern Edelbrock intake was redesigned with a CAD system. And, it is identical to the original on the outside, since they got it right the first time in terms of carb placement. Since Edel. had rights to the Carter carb, they kept the design and made a package out of it instead of compromising for Holleys. Which is what happens when you space the carbs farther apart and adjust intake floor and both runner length and attitude in exchange for glam. According to my Edelbrock rep, that is. But he just may be in the dark. ;-)
Anyway, my point was that the Edelbrock carbs are easier to service in terms of metering rod change versus jet change, no gaskets below fuel level, and their physical design makes use with any d/q intake possible, not just one or two, due to linkage friendly design. This might bring up important factors for someone considering alternative fuels in an induction setup. Or someone wanting a simple way to set up a street system, which is what it sounded like to me. Kind of the kiss principle, if you will.
I'm not dissing Holley. With their history, that would be foolish. I'm just offering another way to go.
Now, Leon you said you are using special carbs for the fuel. You just need to determine body size in relation to the intake to rule out the Edelbrock intake and then your decision is easy. Flip a coin and pick Ford or Offy. They both work about the same. If the carbs fit the Edelbrock piece, then your choice is more difficult. But, either way, you get your dual quads.
And if you are using a centrifugal blower on the Lexus engine, you can call Vortech and ask for some leads on who can reprogram the computer for you so you can use the trannie. There are lots of guys hot-rodding lexus engines these days. Or pick up some import tuner mags and leaf through them. There are lots of reprogrammers working on ricers. And the Lexus is a ricey V8.
cheers
kraven
