Carburetors

Chilly & Mike could not have summarized this better. I've personally had Edelbrock 800 (joke), Holley 4150's 850 DP, 1000 HP and 4500 series 1050 3-circuit and now run a 8082 1050 2-circuit. I also own a wide-band O2 sensor which reads instant AFR from 11-18:1. Man-o-man......I've spent alot of money.........The Edelbrock is a junky cheap carburetor, and I believe the 800 cfm is bogus figure. I've never measured it, but its junky. The 850 Dp is great bang for the buck, with choke removed. The 950 is, like Mike said, good AFR curves through out the throttle range, and works great on street strip 466 in my opinion. The 1000 HP ran great all around, and was probably my favorite carb. Ran great, changeable air bleeds, which help immensely when tuning idle/transition AFR. Supports up to 650-700 HP ballpark. Regarding Dominators...I've spent alot of time tuning them on a 466 street/strip. The 8896 3-circuit is VERY VERY rich on intermediate circuits, and the int air bleeds have to be opened as much as .025" to get the AFR anywhere near 13:1. These really require restricting the fuel in this int circuit. The fuel jets arent changeable on the idle or int circuits on this carb, so barring inserting fuel restrictors, air bleeds are only way to tune these lower circuits. The 8082 is definately streetable on 466, just open idle air bleeds about .002-.005", and the best way to run is to drop main jets down to 84 range and open the power valve restrictors to .093". These ballpark numbers work vell on my 8082 1050. It will have light-load AFR in vicinity of 13.5 - 15:1, and WOT drops down to 12-13 range, which is where you want to be.....I agree Holley is way to go. Never had a Demon buy dont want to give Barry Grant a grand for a carburetor.