[V8] Re: v8 supercharger

[Ed Kellock]

Nope.  The 280 (114 chassis, no letters in the model designation) had
a 4 barrel carb form '73 to '76.  Prior to that, the 250 (no letters)
had twin Solex carbs.  The 280 got a 4 barrel instead of the Solex.
So the Holley really wasn't that big a deal as a replacement.  It was
easy to overtorque the original 4-bbl and warp things causing air
leaks.  Anyway, the Holley didn't really prove to be a performance
enhancement.  It was really just a nice alternative to the worn-out,
over-torqued, warped original carb.   (After typing all this I still
can't remember the mfr of the orignal OE carb.)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kneale Brownson" <knotnook at traverse.com>
To: "Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com>; <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] Re: v8 supercharger


> That was a carbed model?  I thought that by then they were all
injected.
>
> At 06:06 PM 2/17/2005 -0700, Ed Kellock wrote:
> >I put a Holley 4 bubble on my parents' '73 Mercedes 280 twin-cam
I-6
> >(only 12-valves though.. why bother?) back many years ago.  Worked
> >pretty durn gud.
> >
>