Carb compare. Magazines Scared???

[sinned]

You are missing the point. A cam swap or heads, or headers is a pretty fair test; 90% of the engines out there will have similar results. Carburetors are very picky, what works one engine will run terrible on another. My engine runs great with a 750HP but may not with a 750 Edlebrock. Every engine will behave differently to a change in carburetors. Granted each combo could be tuned but it would take an enormous amount of time to go through the trouble of building each of the tested carburetors to engine in question. A "good" tune takes about 4-6 hours. Multiply that by 3-6 different carbs and you can see how even a magazine might have trouble coughing up for that kind of dyno time.

[GUS68]

Yes I agree. Sooooo lets take a crate 350, call each carb manufature and tell them all the specs on the crate 350 and have them send us a tuned carb specificly for this motor the only thing is that it has to be a 650cfm, (or 750 0r 800 or.....) as long as all the carbs tested flow the same cfm. In theory the motor will make exactly the same horse no matter what carb is bolted to it if they all flow the same cfm RIGHT? So lets see how the measure up. You could also do this same test on a car at the drag strip!!! And dyno time ????? I have read articles where they dynoed a motor then switched heads!!!! Or cams!!!! How long did that take???? It would take just minutes to switch carbs.