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Old 09-24-2012, 11:56 AM   #40
bnoon
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Re: Increased MPG for carbs?

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Originally Posted by kwin View Post
He does say the quad is a better more fuel efficient design.
MPG with a Quadrajet is better than Holley because of the tiny primaries and HUGE secondaries vs the Holley's all 4 bores being equal sized. Keep those secondaries closed on a Quad and you can pull more MPG out of it vs throttle body for much the same reason (TB has two large bores to flow the same air WOT as a Quad).
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