Edelbrock 1409 Carb

i have one on mine never an issue , I use them on half my cars and trucks and the only issue is sometimes on the plow trucks they get to coughing after hitting a banking too hard

Some success, some failure with the edelbrocks in my correct craft usage. They are certainly not an upgrade but can be made to work well with a little adjustment. I have found them to be much more effected by front to back level than the holleys though, so if you go that way I would recommend a wedge.

plus 1 on the wedge ,

I like every other product Edelbrock makes besides carbs. On stock setups they are OK in my opinion.

Your promblems are probably related to Edelbrock trying to use a carburetor design that is approaching 50 years old in performance applications that was used on stock style engines. The only time my car ever ran well was at WOT when it was already moving. I switched to a Demon mechanical secondary with no choke and set the idle circuits. Thats it. 15k miles and almost 10 years later with untold 1/4 mile passes and it operates like the day it was new. Starts better cold too even with the lack of a choke.

Holley boats set up properly run like fuel injected boats. There are plenty on this site that start turn key with out even needing to pump the throttle cold. A new Holley set up properly will make the boat run like new.

Keep in mind, The Eddy was a new out of the box unit. I had it on a bone stock 318 and a hot 360. It behaved poorly on the 318 and even worse on the 360.

Weve installed a few edelbrock carbs at the marina, most needed quite a bit of screwing around. One we could never figure out after installing it so we had to eat the difference and get them a holley. Holley always seems the easiest to deal with. I like the rochesters out there, goofy to take apart but reliable, not sure if people still buy those aftermarket or at all, but they were always easy going imho.

Yes your lines and linkage will hook right up, you wont need a wedge, and your boat will run at least as good, if not better with the holley than with the edelbrock. So why is it your are still thinking on it? The edelbrock is cheaper true, but its got to be getting pretty close if you add in a new fuel line and a wedge? I would also say in general if you went to sell the boat a new holley is a selling point the edelbrock not so much.

So whats your goal here?

Yea.....I know so looks like a new Holley is going to be on order!

Want to buy a slightly used edelbrock. Ha ha. If I had it to do over I'm pretty sure I'd go holly.

My only real problem is a bog on the hole shot. I'm still playing around with jets and rods but it's hard when you can't get a f/a reading off of it.

That bog on the Eddy is best adjusted with metering rods and grinding off weight or adding weight to the secondary air doors.