Picked up the bearings $50 races and 4 kits man I'm ready will have to meet up a pleasant some time here's the wife's pic for corona's where's your beach

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Dropped it off at Phil's to get the motor work done and fix up all the rats nest.

Sounds great you can find us down at the 4 lane

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No disrespect also and I don’t mean to take anything away from Nate’s hard work.  It is just a thought.

Indeed Nate put a lot of work into those carbs and I have great respect for those who wrench on their own, particularly those who pay close attention to the fine details.  I just want the best possible outcome from his efforts.

The installed angle of his jet intake (~4 degrees for standard Berk) influences the installed angle of the engine for drive line angularity.  Inherently, the aft end (the flywheel side) of the engine in a jet boat is lower.  In this picture, it seems that the plenum is installed with the angularity of the carb mounting surfaces angling down towards the stern (thicker side forward).  That combined with angle of the engine install will cause the front float bowls to be much higher relative to the rear float bowls.  This may or may not cause a problem.  He might have enough adjustability in his floats that this never causes a problem.  However, if it does, it will manifest itself as a tuning issue in an otherwise good functioning carb.  Ultimately, the carb angle should be level while on plane.  If you take a look at any form of motor sports that uses Holley (and derivatives) carbs, great effort is made to make the carbs level at ride height.  Manifolds are machined with an angle on the carb mounting surface (see red circle).

Again, not trying to take anything away from Nate and I mean no disrespect by stating my observation.  Just thinking an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  riverrat, you could be completely right also, it COULD be an optical illusion.  Or maybe I just looked at it out of the wrong eye (I can’t see out of one eye).     In reality, I could not tell for sure unless I measured the angle of the carb surface and compared it to the hull planning surface (next to the intake).  The angle of the carbs to the gunwale, deck, floor, etc. is irrelevant.  Just my humble opinion.

Respectfully submitted,

Joe

I broke my holley base plate installing after I rebuilt it and snapped off the corner of the base plate   I hope I can find another rbase plate to swap it out with