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carby for a 202?

Started by _tyre fryer_ , Jan 02 2007 10:29 PM

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#1 _tyre fryer_

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 10:29 PM

I have a stock 202 and i just want more power what holley carby is best?320, 350 or 465? i want a holley not triples. also do the holleys need adaptors or do they just bolt on?
thanks heaps.
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#2 _chevy_253_torana_

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 11:16 PM

you either need adaptor plate or a new manifold

go the holley as unlike bloody tripples you can keep it in tune and there easy to rebuild

everyone wanks on how the 350s are no good

my mates torana had a 192 with the biggest solid lifter cam and a 350 holley and screamed passed heaps of v8s

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 08:06 PM

yep..go the 350s

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#4 _tyre fryer_

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 09:08 PM

well does anyone having anything lying around their shed I could perhaps buy from them?

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 10:00 PM

Varijet... but no I don't have one.

Not hard to come by though. Any wreckers will have thousands.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 10:38 PM

varijet? what that from? how well does it go? what's its specs?

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:15 PM

Varijet... but no I don't have one.

Not hard to come by though. Any wreckers will have thousands.

Heath, I though one of your new years resolutions was to give up smoking?
In the words of Dr Phil: What were you thinking?
WW2 stromberg on holden manifold for me!

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:23 PM

Varijets were on the carbied black 202s (pre EFI VK), blue 173s and 202s, and the later red 202s (I believe VB, UC and WB?) or something along those lines.

They are a lot more advanced than say, the 1bbl Stromberg which is the standard Torrie six carb, and they can perform very well whilst still maintaining acceptable fuel economy. I've never built one myself though, so i don't know if they're easy to tune etc, but I've been told they have potential to be awesome, and aren't bad as per factory spec. I've only done a few Strombergs so my knowledge is very limited.

And as per the first line, LOL, at least I think I get it, lol.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:26 PM

WW Stromberg, (if you can get the right original linkages or a cable set-up) or 350 Holley. Don't forget the extractors.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:26 PM

Were only fitted to blue/black motors with 12 port head.
Oh, and Camiras and Starfires but they don't count do they?

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:32 PM

Isn't there a Varijet I and a Varijet II Rob? Only one of which was on the 12-Port headed motor AFAIK.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:43 PM

There were a couple of versions of them but I don't know about the I or II bit?
Both the ones here are off late "airpump" motors.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:49 PM

I've always been told that UCs had them originally, but I've never seen a UC with one. And obviously no UCs had blue motors or anything. But I may have simply been misinformed.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:51 PM

I don't remember UC's having a variijet, (I used to work on them when they were new), I think that particular carby came out on the VC Commodore - circa 1980ish.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:54 PM

I don't think UC 6 but I could be wrong, VC was the first commodore AFAIK with them and was built later than UC 6? UC sunbird had them though.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:57 PM

OK. my car is a UC and its a stromberg the manual says so. i DO have extractors so that's easy.. I'm going to U-pull-it tomorrow to get elec. ignition for her.. so what model commodore should I get the varijet off? and how hard d'ya reckon it will be to fit it to the red motor?
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Posted 03 January 2007 - 11:57 PM

Anyway my experience with them is they are "fiddly" (to tune) "tempremental" and the base plates used to break on them and not a carby I would recommend.

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Posted 04 January 2007 - 12:01 AM

OK. my car is a UC and its a stromberg the manual says so. i DO have extractors so that's easy.. I'm going to U-pull-it tomorrow to get elec. ignition for her.. so what model commodore should I get the varijet off? and how hard d'ya reckon it will be to fit it to the red motor?
thanks,
Matt

You would still need a 2bbl manifold to fit a varajet to a red. You would probably have to make an adapter too as I think you will find no-one makes one. Good luck in your hunt for an electronic dissy at the wreckers too. They are usually one of the 1st things to go.

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#19 _tyre fryer_

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Posted 04 January 2007 - 12:12 AM

yeh that's what my old man said... but i was thinking if i was getting one of them off a commy i could pop open the bonnet and see if there was a varijet worht taking.. the shit is so cheap there that even if it sits in the shed and we sctratch our heads for a while it wouldn't matter. i don't think I'm a real fan of 350 holley anymore I only make $150 a week and I don't want it all to go to fuel. (I'm still at school not a slave-labourer).
Matt.