"Thus, for those of you that are satisfied with the clones, I am happy for you."

Hi Jon. Happy Friday.

The only Edelbrock AFB clone I have any experience with is the one on my roadster engine. Until reading your many posts I had no idea that they can often be troublesome. I just jetted it for my newly built engine and ran it. I guess I got lucky because this one is on an engine that delivers good reliability, power and fuel economy. The only time I've touched the carburetor since jetting it so long ago was after the vapor lock problem was finally solved and I was able to reduce the idle speed because it no longer had a reduced idle speed and threatened to stall when vapor lock was about to occur. Now it has a steady idle speed under all conditions.

In the past you've explained that the AFB and Edelbrock clones use noticeably different metering rods. What other differences are there that would account for the performance differences? This subject is really interesting to me and apparently also to Kevin who states above "Please start a thread, and share the pros/cons of Carter versus Edelbrock." I looked at a lot of Amazon reviews of the 1406 and didn't find the answer there (84% 5-star and 9% 4-star ratings):

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B000182DIS

To me learning new things is fun. In fact even at age 75 I believe that when we stop learning we stop living.

Thanks Jon!

Ray W

Ray