Holley Carburetors

By Dave F. Emanuel

Book Overview

Learn how to select, install, tune and modify all popular Holley performance carburetors. This information-packed guide provides a detailed view of basic carburetor functioning, modifying for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931472083
• ISBN13: 9780931472084
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Holley Carbs

Very well written book by Dave Emanuel. This book covers some history and theory, on Holley Carbs. I Highly Recommend this book to all people interested in Holley Carburetors. Mr. Emanuel is a very knowledgable man on the subject. It is a must have in any carburetor guys library in my opinion.

Holley Carburetors

Excellent overview of the Holley carbs and the inner workings as well as tuning of the Holley. Would liked to have read more on the performance side. Morgan

How to tune a Holley.

This book includes information on how to select a carb, how each metering system works, mileage, street, race, off-road, marine and forced induction modifications and copious part numbers. The correct process is described to fix any problem, but most final numbers(70 or 72 main jet? 35 or 37 pump squirter? Etc) are determined by road or strip testing. Also includes exploded diagrams and a 54 picture teardown and reassembly of the 4150/4160. I had no idea how many tuning possibilities there were on a Holley. I've learned that it is likely to take a fair amount of work to get a double pumper to run smoothly, get decent gas mileage, and produce power on the street. However it is possible and this book tells you how. Expect to invest in a jet kit, accelerator pump kit, and some drilling if you put a double pumper on your street car.

Holley Carbs

While this book is very good and should be in every Holley tuners library, I would like to see more theory or perhaps something such as "if you make the idle air bleeds smaller then the power curve ...." Would be nice

From Zero to Hero in 144 pages flat!

What can I say, we race a NASCAR Street Stock bomber and we were a solid "B" main car, We were untouchable in the "B" Mains but we just couldn't make the transitition to the "A" Main. Until I boned up on some Holley tuning tips in this book, now we are an "A" Main runner weekly, we've made it as far up as a fourth place finish! Now that we have the carb under control we are fine tuning our suspension for our new found power and we are improving weekly! I HIGHLY recomend this book for ALL racers and car enthusiasts alike!