Carbking - I have done a fair amount of reading on building preformance 6 cylinders and have some that make respectable power. My '56 Chevy 2 dr sedan has a 292 with mild head work, quite a bit of cam, headers, 4bbl, 4 spd and 4.56 gears. The carburetor is an Edlebrock 750 which is, from everything I have read, way too much carb for that engine. But the engine seems to like it. It idles well at about 1000rpm, pulls hard to 6800 and the plugs stay a very nice tan color. I started out with a Holley 475cfm and when I added more cam went to a Edlebrock 600. I had the 750 on the shelf so decided to give it a try and, as I said, it seems to like it. The car is very diveable with the muffers connected and with open headers it has run a best of 13.8 in the quarter at just under 100mph. I guess my question is, why would the engine seem to run that well with "too big a carburetor"? Any thoughts?
