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350 holley

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350 holley

Post by RockyNL »

I have a 4.4 v8 in my 2 door Rangie had heaps of probs with the old stromberg, have been told a 350 holley bolts staight on, Its this true and is this the best carby for the job?

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Post by Loanrangie »

Holley is not the best carb but does give good power and economy, i would think that a rebuilt stromberg would be better off road than a holley even though i had a 350 on my 2 previous rangies with good results and a 450 4brl on my 4.4 at the moment.
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Post by cloughy »

Loanrangie wrote:Holley is not the best carb but does give good power and economy, i would think that a rebuilt stromberg would be better off road than a holley even though i had a 350 on my 2 previous rangies with good results and a 450 4brl on my 4.4 at the moment.
But the ute doesn't go anywhere :finger:

Chuck the holley in the bin, reco the stromberg
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Post by Hobie18 »

If you intend to use your rangie off-road don't fit a holley to it. You will regret it. I have a 350 holley fitted to my old 77 rangie on the road it was fine off road, when in the tricky stuff it would flood, yes you can lower the float level, fit defectors etc but nothing really fixed the problem. Some people will tell you to fit it backwards, great then it floods going down hill instead of uphill have you ever lost power steering brakes going down a technical hill. I did purchase a quadrajet but deregistered the car before working out how to fit and ended up selling it - I'm not sure whether this would have actually fixed the problem.

I do however have a P76 manifold with the standard twin carbs grafted onto it, this is currently sitting in the box in the back of the car. Playing with the idea of putting the 4.4 into my 4 door rangie with the EFI instead of the 3.9

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Post by Bush65 »

Quadrajet are much better off road. I had one off a holden V8 - adaptor plates from holley to quadrajet are readily available.
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Post by Loanrangie »

cloughy wrote:
Loanrangie wrote:Holley is not the best carb but does give good power and economy, i would think that a rebuilt stromberg would be better off road than a holley even though i had a 350 on my 2 previous rangies with good results and a 450 4brl on my 4.4 at the moment.
But the ute doesn't go anywhere :finger:

Chuck the holley in the bin, reco the stromberg
Lol, not f.cking you again :finger: :finger: :finger: :finger:
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Post by mopar rangie »

you can buy all the parts to set the holley up for off road stuff.the old man has one on his thing that he spent the time on setting up propley.in the ruff stuff and up and down steep stuff it works great.its 100% ahead of a stock holley in the bush.
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Post by walker »

Also I am pretty sure that if you do the figures the Stomberg won't suck enough air for the 4.4.

Just put it on gas then you dont have to worry what carb you use.
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Post by cloughy »

mopar rangie wrote:you can buy all the parts to set the holley up for off road stuff.the old man has one on his thing that he spent the time on setting up propley.in the ruff stuff and up and down steep stuff it works great.its 100% ahead of a stock holley in the bush.
But it still floods fuel on the real steep stuff, last time your brother drove up thompson had trouble, better but not right
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Post by Loanrangie »

walker wrote:Also I am pretty sure that if you do the figures the Stomberg won't suck enough air for the 4.4.

Just put it on gas then you dont have to worry what carb you use.
The original 4.4 stromberg is ok.
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Post by cloughy »

Loanrangie wrote:
cloughy wrote:
Loanrangie wrote:Holley is not the best carb but does give good power and economy, i would think that a rebuilt stromberg would be better off road than a holley even though i had a 350 on my 2 previous rangies with good results and a 450 4brl on my 4.4 at the moment.
But the ute doesn't go anywhere :finger:

Chuck the holley in the bin, reco the stromberg
Lol, not f.cking you again :finger: :finger: :finger: :finger:
How longs it been sitting for :?:
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Post by shakes »

I got a 350 that need reco'ing if you want it?

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Post by RockyNL »

No well i cancelled the holley and getting and fully rebuilt stromberg for here, thanks for the advise
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