I have a bone stock 64 valiant 225, 3speed manual. I had tons of parts and plans but things change as life changes so I need to just get this thing running and driving. I have a 1bbl and 2 2bbl but they all need rebuilt they just leak out of all the seals. So can I mount my Holly 390 4bbl with the offie intake and expect a decent driver or am I just going to be pushing to much fuel. And to install it can I install the carb sideways primaries facing the drivers fender so the linkage is facing the firewall. I still have the rod style linkage so any ideas on how to hook it up. Pictures of what others have done would be nice. And some one told me to just hook the electric choke to the coil but the instructions say do not do that. Where do you guys hook up your choke wires? And last question what is the best book on tuning these holley 390s?


In the next six months to a year I should have a ported and OS valved head to install but for now it just needs to get on the road and hopefully make it to vegas. Thanks, Michael

Hi i bolted on the 390 - set it up according to slantsix racing manual, recurved the distributor and it is a indecent driver it pulls like a demon

Correctly setup the 390 gives you more range than the BBD and potentially better mpg - but you need to have ab exhaust system to handle the extra flow, and as I said the recurved dizzy also brought advantages

Primaries facing the firewall would be optimal - BUT unfortunately i have no experience with other than cable style linkages

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the simplest "right now" solution would be to rebuild one of your stock carburetors. hopefully your 1bbl is a carter, and doesnt have warped housings or worn throttle shafts, that would be my first choice.

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Bone stock? Don't fool with the 4bbl. Do what stepon is intimating, either rebuild one of your existing carbs or get another and bolt it on.

I assure you a Holley 4bbl is not bolt on and go, even new, and the Eddy 500, while bolt on and go, is not gonna do what you want on a stock engine. Well, since I don't know 'zactly what you want, I am taking you at what you said, to get your car up and cruising.

If you look over some old threads you will see as soon as you get to 4bbl-ing you correspondingly get into tuning, linkage and more tuning. Mucho fun to be sure, but effort wasted on a stock engine. Personally I like Dave Emanuel's and Mike Urich's Holley books. Get em both. Live with em for a while. You need to absorb a lot from them, like Power Valves, theory of operation and on and on. I build my Holleys with the books at hand because each book has slightly different pics and ways of doing things.

Whereas you can do either your 1 or 2bbl carbs in an hour, it will take you a half day of careful work on your first Holley 8007. Plus about a hundred bucks in parts. You need a dip vat and compressed air. If you are going to do it, do it right. Get a powervalve blowout protector if you need one, a secondary metering block, a range of jets, several power valves, an base adapter, a riser, etc. Lots more than just dip and put in gaskets to a Holley 4bbl. I mounted mine both ways, with primaries parallel to and perpendicular to but didn't have any real performance difference I could tell. Even with a A/F gauge with a sensor in each side of Dutra Duals.

Slants are great to drive. Quickest way to start driving stock? Put your 1 or 2bbl on and go. Get another engine and build it to the induction system you want. And exhaust. And rear end and tranny. The basic formula for a build is in this forum, but its a lot more than adding a carb and manifold.

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