Two Barrel Carb

[gspineda]

I'm toying with the idea of replacing my 1 barrel carb with a two barrel on my P15, 218. I know that some members have been discussing a 2300, 350cfm Holley with an adapter. Can someone please shed some light to doing this to a stock 218, pros and cons? Where to get the equipment. Thanks, gp.

[48mirage]

Can't answer about the carb you are looking at. On my '49 230 I am getting ready to put on a 2 barrel also. I got the Langdon's Stovebolt catalog and they have some stuff to make this work but I think this is too much carb. Doing the numbers and figuring the volumetric efficiency of these manifolds down to around 60% the 350 cfm carb would be too much. I am looking at a holley 94, model 2110 used on mid 50 fords. down around 150 cfm's and with the later '54 Plymouth intake I found I have been able to identify the exact carb and take advantage of the automatic manifold heated choke, dashpot and carberator vacuum advance. My recent education came when I started a web search on the Holley 94's and read some of the tech articles.

As an alternative I see a lot about a fellow George Asche (sp?) who does a lot of work on these engines. He appears to be particularly adept at modifying the intakes and exhausts and using dual carter single barrel carbs.

Do a search on him in here and you will probably get to see some pictures of his work.

[BobT-47P15]

George does not have a website. But if you call him, he will tell you about how it works. Several of the other guys have his phone number.

[Guest mikeys toy]

Weber dfv=200cfm

Weber dgv=250cfm

Alot of the jeep guys are going to this carb, ford used the dfv on their pinto's mustang's, ranger's

they're sequential, so you get good mileage as well as having power when you want it

Dfv's have a diamond shaped air cleaner housing, dfv's have a square one as well as huge throats.

they are simple and easy to tune; I use a dgv on the Cricket.