Too-high floats are usually more trouble than too-low floats because you can
get unintended flooding during hard cornering or braking. If your needle and
seat size is marginal (or if the fuel pump/fuel line flow capacity is not that
good) then having the floats low can cause starvation on sustained
full-throttle due to insufficient fuel volume in the carb. I'm not familiar
with the float setting procedure on the Holley carbs, but I'm sure there are
specific tweaks that can be done, depending on the float bowl style, to
alleviate the common driving concerns.
On many Weber carbs, you had to be a bit careful because the float high limit
was set by flipping the assembly upside down, and this would sometimes lead
people to adjusting the things in the wrong direction.
Cheers,
Theo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jay Laifman
> Sent: June 11, 2013 11:01 PM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net Den
> Subject: [Tigers] Holley Rebuild - float bowls
>
> Also, is there some reason my dad might have had the floats really
> high? The rear one was a little high from the "parallel to the ground"
> that the Holley instructions suggest. But the front one was really
> high - almost to the top.
>
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