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Old 04-10-2020, 05:18 PM   #14
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Re: 283 carb choice.

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Originally Posted by vince1 View Post
When I was a kid I put a 4 barrel on a 58 Ford 272. It was a Holley square bore with small openings and vacuum secondaries. Performance and fuel economy went way up and the car ran great. I don't know what the cfm rating was but suspect maybe 500 to 600.
I think the smallest Holley was a 390 cfm. Could have been what you had.
57 fords came with this monstrosities.

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