The Camaro Club (UK)

Hi All,

Hope everyone had a good Christmas!

I'm after recommendations of someone who can rebuild a holley 600cfm DP. At the moment, it's being quite a pig, float bowls are sticking, so fuel just generally gets dumped everywhere. Quite happy to remove it and send it away. Ideally it needs setting up on the car, but with the carb in it's current state, it's not viable to drive it far.

On the rebuild stakes, is this something I could do? - I'm not confident that I can jet it properly, but would keep the current ones (which are unknown at this point).

Cheers all,
Mark

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'68 Camaro

Hi Mark, good to see you on here. It sounds like something Martin could do, and he could tune it on the car as well to a very nice performance. Would that be an option?

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Hi Ray,

Yeah, sorry not been on more often, hope you are well!

Yes, Martin would definitely be able to work his magic, but he's probably far too busy, and also very far away (especially for me to drive the car!). If I had a trailer and suitable tow vehicle, I'd take it over to him without hesitation.

Happy New Year!

Mark

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'68 Camaro

I took apart and rebuilt some Holleys a few years ago. Not too tricky, just needed some carb cleaner and compressed air (in a can or from a compressor) I bought some rebuild kits, as you need some spares (gaskets, needles, jets etc). You might need new floats (difficult to know without seeing them), and you'd need to open up the carb to identify which ones to get.

After the cleanup, there's different aspects to tuning. It's one thing to get it idling nicely (which you can do using vacuum gauges), but harder to tune for on-road usage, as it requires striping it down again if you want to change anything. Not so bad on a rolling road where you can monitor it easily, but otherwise changes are based on driving feel.

Having re-read your post - if it was running OK at one point, you would probably get away with keeping the current jets, which makes it simpler. Just a cleanup, replace the simple bits and see how it goes.