The last gasket I put on the Carter was an Edelbrock part#. This is for the top of the carb. It was just a tad iffy dimension wise. Didn't seem to want to lay down.

I always understood that the Edelbrock gasket was the same as the AFB series Carter.

Yea or Nay?

CJ

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If a modern Carter, it should be exactly the same casting.

Lou

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Since the subject comes up: Over on the "other" board there's a guy in Sweden who is restoring a '65 Dart Charger to a breathtaking level of detail correctness. Thread is here. He's shooting for a "reference" restoration, and by all appearance he'll achieve it. He's looking for an air cleaner gasket for his 273-4bbl. It looks as if today's gaskets are just plain round rings, but take a look at these shown in the '65 FPC, below. Anyone ever see this(!) gasket any more?

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Yes Dan, That is for the early AFB with the smaller airhorn,(4 7/8 ?) I think the last year was 67.Later ones had 5 1/8 inch airhorns.

He may want to check with Kramer Automotive www.kramerauto.com
Jim Kramer may have what he is looking for as the small airhorn carbs were on the Max Wedge and Hemi cars,, his specialty.

Sorry, I was assuming CJ was comparing the late (90s up) aftermarket Carter AFB with the late Eddy Performer. They are only different by the stickers/markings, in my experience.

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Nope!

you were right. I've got the AFB just prior to Edelbrock. Pulled another new gasket out of an Edelbrock kit and it fit perfectly. This AFB has the steel insert for the float baffle, not the early cast job that makes you slice and dice to make it fit.

The last one I tried to put on was from some non-oem. Probably made in china to metric specs.

Got the carb schlooshed out, so hopefully won't cause any more problems. The floats were still dead on from the last time I was in there. I've got the 398's in the secondary. Thinking about bumping to the 401's to see what it acts like. Might make a bit better power on the high end. Hopefully keep me out of the lean situation. Tomorrow I'll Fire it up and perhaps whatever crawled into the system is gone.

CJ

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The primary is still running lean. I could feel the secondary pull in out around the 60'. Interestingly, the car ran faster than it ever has on the street rubber. Right out of the box, it rolled a 15.08 sec 1/4. Before that the best was 15.3x in the quarter mile on street tread.

It may help at the line, since I wasn't spinning. My dial across three of the four runs at Woodburn was locked in at 15.18
The car was right on it until the final run, when it ran a 15.28

Hmmmm. What to do. Still a lousy 60' time. 2.2 seconds.

I need to get efficiencies matched up better. It's all over the place!

CJ

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