• From: Seattle-ish
  • Registered: 2014-03-17
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Topic: Carbs made of Chinesium?

I was staggering around ebay today looking for a cheap used carb to rebuild and ran across some Chinese Holley knockoffs. I've seen a lotta videos of Chinese turbos, but never heard of anyone using a knockoff carb.

This is a 750cfm, more than I need but you get the point:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-750CFM-Dou … 2719021032

I want to say I'd never run a Chinese carb on anything I care about. But it looks like Holley is making carbs in China anyway. And for my Lemons cars I could make an exception.

Anyone ever run one of these? Usually, when a Chinese factory makes knockoffs the quality improves because they're saving money on licensing costs, right?

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Re: Carbs made of Chinesium?

I've heard quality is hit or miss. I've got a Chinese Mikuni knockoff for my Trabant that looks okay, but I haven't used it yet.

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  • Registered: 2011-10-14
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Re: Carbs made of Chinesium?

I've use them for a couple of small engines (Tecumseh 5 horse on a snow blower) and my only complaint is things that should be corrosion resistant, aren't...had to re-use the float bowl from the old carb as the bowl rusted in one season even though I had dropped it over winter.to empty it.

4 Reply by Fishah (edited by Fishah 2019-03-13 10:08 AM)

  • From: Chandler, AZ
  • Registered: 2011-04-18
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Re: Carbs made of Chinesium?

I have a Holley 600 that I bought new last year @ $350, but took off and replaced with a quadrajet.

It has less than two races on it.

I'll match the Ebay Price of $191 shipped if you want it.

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  • From: Seattle-ish
  • Registered: 2014-03-17
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Re: Carbs made of Chinesium?

Fishah wrote:

I have a Holley 600 that I bought new last year @ $350, but took off and replaced with a quadrajet.

It has less than two races on it.

I'll match the Ebay Price of $191 shipped if you want it.

Thanks but I'm looking for the elusive baby Holley: the 390cfm #8007.

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  • From: Tustin, CA
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Re: Carbs made of Chinesium?

FWIW, the Holley carb conversion the rotaries use is a 465cfm

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