<VV> HP 2 - No Corvair, just horsepower!

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/8/2005 7:20:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
tonyu at roava.net writes:

I do  recall how the carb'ed cars didn't pull through the corners as well as 
the  FI cars, obviously the FI metered better in hi-g turns what with carb 
bowl  slosh etc.   But on the straights the carb'ed cars would wake back  
up.     Corners are where AFBs fall a bit flat unless you  get inside them 
and mortify a few things.  They were, however, king  on the streets for the 
"stoplight nationals" on  weekends.



The non-FI Hi-Po Corvettes didn't run the AFB, though. My 1965 327/365 came  
with a Holley list 2818. It still had side pivot floats. I ran mid-low 13's at 
 Southwest Dragway in Lawton, OK, (shifting the sucker at 6800RPM) in  
absolutely bone stock on recap tires (I was young and foolish in 1968- now, no  
longer young). The AFB was only used on the 300 HP and the 250HP motors, at  least 
by 1965. Perhaps the older non-FI Hi-Po used an AFB - That would have been  
the 340HP motor in 62-64. Oh yes and, with the Holley, I took Fast time of day  
at the Comanche Touring Society Autocross at Ft. Sill at about the same time. 
 Boy, did I piss off some MG owners, most of whom were officers!  <grin>  - 
Seth (Spec4 at the  time!)