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Originally Posted by Wbulk
I am thinking the availabilty of good fuel in the near future may have an impact on the route clubs take for their weekend trips. Maybe the future is just installing new fuel injected engines.
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I honestly wouldn't worry too much about the problem. So long as you are aware of it, and you don't start disassembling your engine unnecessarily, it's just another small bit of maintenance, and maybe a little cost, that you
might need to factor in. Summit sells my exact carb (a Holley 3310) remanufactured for $251. On a worst case scenario, if I had to throw away and replace carbs every six or seven years, we're talking the equivalent cost of one tankful of gas per year. The big deal to harp on is just knowing about the problem and that it can come up literally out of nowhere. It's just like a friggin' kidney stone -- and I've had over half a dozen of them now. I've even passed them in airport bathrooms. I don't even take pain killers for them anymore when they come; it's just a part of my plumbing that clogs up from time to time. Just like my carburetor clogging up, once you get used to it,
it ain't no big deal.