you just ran into why so many people use the Holley. Performance part for Holley's are everywhere, just about anything you can think of, dream of or need is floating around out there, somewhere. there is a "learning" curve to tune a Holley or any carburator. Some people never figure it out, others take to it like a duck to sauce or a turkey to stuffing. Most people fall somewhere in the middle. Personally I think Fords and Holley go together, always have since 1957, except, for those years when when Ford started making their own, the Autolite carb, which were a lot better than people gave them credit for. Even then, they used the Holleys for their performance engines.

As far as the bad things being said about Autolites...its mostly sour grapes...When a lot of guys couldn't or wouldn't take the time to learn how to make them work... they pulled them off, installed Holleys and called the autolites junk. Ain't that always the way. Puts me in mind of a friend I had years ago; we used to shoot pool all the time...he was the worst pool player in the world but thought he was the best. Got give him credit, he kept trying....gott'a give him credit for sticking with a bad hand.

Anyway, every time he would lose, he blamed it on the pool stick. It got to be a regular thing. He would come into the pool hall, get damn near every stick in the place and roll them on the table, do his "surveyor" look down the length of the stick and finally pick two or three the met his standards. By the end of the evening he had thrown all of them accross the room or broken them. he started buying pool sticks, like bad golfers by new clubs...the next one was always going to make him Minnisota Fats.

Sometimes it ain't the stick or the golf club. I'll bet he is still buying new cue sticks on a regular basis.

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