I drive by this car every day on my commute. It’s been sitting for years now. What’s up? No time? Did something bad happen?

Nicely done !!!! Sounds SWEET !!! 👍🏼

What cam do you have in it

I can’t believe they are allowed to sell this crap it’ll make a young car guy give up

You only get what you pay for

How is it holding up?

I have a MSD 6014 How do you 0 out the map sensor?

100% all that offshore stuff is JUNK!!! I did a video on intakes "my take on intakes" I bought one that wouldn't fit my engine probably due to core shift in the cheap castings. No chinesium junk for me anymore it's all garbage!!!

I've heard these boxes can fail. what causes that?

I've heard these boxes can fail. Have you had that happen or heard of it?

these chinese knock off carbs leak like a screen door boat ,and your car will burn down .and the threads for the jets and air bleeds are not the same as holly jets threads

I’ve used the Chinese 2 barrel motorcraft knockoff, had great luck with them

I've tuned several Chinese knock off carbs 4150's and $150 Quadrajets for customers , they work amazingly well once tuned for the application, they say they're good for 350 ci to 454 ci lol , so calibration/tuning is in order .

Do you use water/ meth injection in your builds?

STAY AWAY!!!!!!! BUY AMERICAN!!!

Awesome

The eventual build is a LS with the MSD and a predator 6000 carb I'm my 1969 C series can't wait

I have been swapping LS's into everything for over a dozen years and I did the whole FI thing and it worked well. 4 years ago I LS swapped a '85 Mustang LX for my son using a 2009 4.8 and beefed WC T5 I had. After the hardware was done I flopped on a Holley 590 Truck Avenger I had on an Ebay single plane manifold I wanted to use on a run stand just for proof of concept in the Mustang to work out any bugs. Well that thing ran very strong, started right up, didn't bog and with a little timing work in the MSD box would pin you right into the seat and knocked down 26mpg on the hiway to boot, needless to say it never got the FI. No one around here is building race cars, they are looking for cheap power and reliability, everyone understands carbs and have been very happy with my work. A buddy had a '52 Chevy Deluxe and the old 6 had run it's course. I pulled the 4.8 from my son's Mustang and replaced it with a cammed (535hp) 6L LQ4 and 4L60. Then I dropped the 4.8 into the Deluxe with a long shaft Turbo 350 I had. My buddy came back swearing at me because now he had to have a disk brake upgrade but he absolutely loved it on the road running smooth without a hitch. Don't get me wrong, my daily driver is a mini tubbed, chopped '68 C10 with a cammed LM7 5.3 and a 4L60, running a full Fitech multiport FI system with long tubes and a posi, it runs great, very strong, cruises at 25mpg, starts on the first hit and has all the advantages that FI can give you but on a simple street car IMHO the carb wins. Simple and cheaper once you consider all the fuel system pieces and work involved to do FI right from tank to injector the performance isn't all that different and for the average person might be a little more reliable.

What kind of fuel setup does it have?

Great info. Thank you

Tough car.

Tough car.

I have been building carbs and V8 engines since 1995 for a marine engine shop in my home town of Cleveland Ohio for Lake Erie great lakes out boarding. I saw the ebay knock offs start up around 2018 and looked at one during covid when getting after market stuff was at a stand still and can say these have a long way to go to be overall suitable for long term use. What I can say is that because the parts are not a match to holley you cannot just put on holley carb parts to fix or upgrade it and would have to buy another complete chinese copy unit for those parts needed. What is even crazier is they started selling at $99 and now are at $300 on average for same carb as 5 years ago. It would be better to just get a holley core to rebuild which is so easy to do even a 10 year old can do it. It is sad Holley and others let china take over production to save money and they have no such thing as "patents" in China's CCP government or businesses and reason chinese knock offs have been a thing since the 1970s in which our government mandated all chinese products have a "made in China" imprint or tag so as not to fool buyers.

Nice kit, very clean looking harness. As a truck driver I had an opportunity to stop by Scram Speed. Steve was awesome to spend a little time talking with me and answering my questions about a previous video on the MSD 6014 controller. Nice store and clean shop. I wish it was in Texas where I live.

can we see a budget winter build series for science and fun? catfish camaro,LL8 4.2 , 60lb inj, amazon turbo, tune?

Bring back the SVO

Awesome. Keeping it simple.!

Awesome

I just put one on a vortec 350 with a mid mild cam, working great at wide open, even great at cruise, but i cant get rid of the stumble when i stab it hard. Oh well, they got me, time for a real Holley.

I didnt know there were chinese knockoffs of a standard Holley 4 bbl but i guess i shouldnt be surprised. I knew there were Weber clones and I've heard folks swear by them and folks swear at 'em. Even in the comments here the sentiment is the same. As you say, for someone learning the ropes these sound like bad news and the appeal will be significant at almost half price. When you look at all the precision machining and quality control that needs to happen for a carb to work well & consistently... most likely it's just not there.

Thanks for the vid. I'm doing my first LS swap and didn't know yet I needed the LS coil harness. Just ordered it from you guys with a great price and free shipping was unexpected. Now to finnish pulling my old 350 4 bbl for my crate LS3 stroked and bored to 427 carbed BluePrint motor. Thanks again.

I have a knockoff 44IDF off Amazon for 70.00 bucks. And I'll put it up against any weber idf or empi hpmx.

I bought 2 of the Chinese 600 vac secondarys and they both worked fine

I got an idea how about keeping Americans working. If people continue to buy Chinese one day you'll have to speak it because they'll own your ass.

Funny LOL I have used these knock off carbs on the engine dyno and I will say between a us carb or holley These knock offs arent too far behind holley. That being said as far as power production the holley was really easy to tune and get right. The knock offs are a burden in tunning and wont support more than 500 crank hp we tried it. None of the holley jets will cross to the knock off. But a drill bit and some time will get you close, The holley we used on a cam 6.2 and 630 lift cam, Crank and idled no problem small adujustment on the idle screw and fuel pressure. The knock was hell wouldent hold fuel pressure and leak internal on the back circut.

Its a "carburetor shaped object"

No better then a garbage LS anyway.

Thats some pretty good and sound advice. Thanks.

I've used the Chinese Weber IDFs both in 40mm and 44mm and they work just fine.

problem is and will be Same warehouse has that and Holleys which will now be price increased and not available so Buy that or pay extreme price for Holley, Just like 2022

I bought chinese Weber IDF carbs back when they came out. I wasted untold amounts of time trying to get them to run right. Found similar problems. The worst tho was that I found metal chips and burrs in the passageways. Also found they were not even the same design inside so I suspect most of my problem were the standard jet sizes were not working cause the hole and passage sizes were different. Making air jets work different.I spent weeks on the carbs trying to get them to work. Finally I gave them away and got authentic Italian made ones. Those tuned perfect in 10 minutes and ran perfect for years. I WILL NEVER GO CHEAP ON CARBS AGAIN. NOT WORTH IT!!

Buy China buy twice.

The Land of Almost Fits strikes again.

It's all yakkety yak until you run an A-B test on a real car at the track. Otherwise, it's bench racing.

Wow that’s horrible

You just told everyone your thoughts based on what you see without even putting the carburetor on an engine and running it. Your use of the term "modern carburetor " is funny! Carburetor's are far from ground breaking tech! Holley patents ran out long ago so is China really stealing the design? From a tinkering standpoint your correct in probably every way. Did they use the swaging process on the screws for the throttle plates instead of locktight?

I'm looking forward to one of these being brought in on a tilt bed.😂

Can we see you play with a LL8?❤

Do i need hook up coolant sensor to msd box on a carbureted ls swap?

The chassis looks good! When I did my restoration, box with the Hellwig frame fx kit. Then acid dipped, epoxy dipped and powder coated. Made for heck a better ride with the LS3.