1Fury1
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Been reading here lately where guys are having good success with their eddy's and have been recommending them and that's great. However it prompted me to share my recent experience with one of these. I don't have alot of past experience with eddy carbs but have learned alot recently due a frustrating off idle stumble that wouldn't go away. My engine builder sold me the carb still in the box. I read the manual backwards and forwards, changed jets and rods, step up springs, idle mixture adjustments, on and on. Even had a very experienced tune up guy tweak the thing for me.
It started good cold or hot, idled nice, WOT and part throttle were fine, but the problem was on slow take off it would want to die, every time. Every red light was an embarrassment waiting to happen. Needed to stay on the clutch and rev the sh1t out of it to get moving otherwise it would stall. Well as it turns out there are volumes written about this very subject with the Eddy 1406 and 1411 750cfm. Google it. Mine is a 1411. Most other eddys don't seem to have this problem apparently.
What I deducted from the reading about 6 years of posts on several different boards was that there were things you could do to deal with it, but it will never really go away completely. Bottom line recommendation, switch carbs so that's what I did.
A friend had a quickfuel slayer, which is really a holley, sitting on the bench and offered it to me to try. Wow what a difference it took the stumble away completely. I can now coast away from a light without having to do a world class burnout. Much easier on the clutch, plus the throttle response is better and it's smooth all the way through. I'm a happy camper.
It started good cold or hot, idled nice, WOT and part throttle were fine, but the problem was on slow take off it would want to die, every time. Every red light was an embarrassment waiting to happen. Needed to stay on the clutch and rev the sh1t out of it to get moving otherwise it would stall. Well as it turns out there are volumes written about this very subject with the Eddy 1406 and 1411 750cfm. Google it. Mine is a 1411. Most other eddys don't seem to have this problem apparently.
What I deducted from the reading about 6 years of posts on several different boards was that there were things you could do to deal with it, but it will never really go away completely. Bottom line recommendation, switch carbs so that's what I did.
A friend had a quickfuel slayer, which is really a holley, sitting on the bench and offered it to me to try. Wow what a difference it took the stumble away completely. I can now coast away from a light without having to do a world class burnout. Much easier on the clutch, plus the throttle response is better and it's smooth all the way through. I'm a happy camper.
