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Hum? Quite a question that is.
OK, background.
I have run them on two Clevelands. The first was a solid lifter (.500 lift, 297 advertised-probably 248 @.050 in todays terms), 11.8:1.

Iron 4v pig ports.

For the driving I did, I liked them. One of my Chevy friends begged me to let him drive it up the street which I relented to to stop the whining.

He comes back and says there is something wrong with this car. It has no bottom end. Well, he was actually correct. The wonderfull quality of the Accell distributor had stretched the advance springs and it had no advance.

But, the other thing was that this guy had never driven a Cleveland before. So how do I explain the idiosyncrosies (spelling is close enough, you get the idea) of them to him.

It also had the 42mm chokes in the carbs at the time.

The second engine is my current one. It has Ford Motorsport A3 heads, flat top pistons and a solid lifter cam. Same one as above actually.

It has 40mm chokes in it.

The nature of this engine is a little different. It has 180 degree heads, 2" tubes.

It has bottom end. It would make my Chevy friend envious.

Recommendations:
1) do not run Webers on a stock hydraulic ammed, big port, low compression engine.
2) do not run Webers if you want a no maintenence turn key car
3)run Webers if you want a no nonsense kick ass ultimate naturally asperated engine
4)do not run Webers unless you can do all the work yourself
5)do not do Webers unless you can throw $100 bills at the car like you are ditching your cigarette butts.

Conclusion:
Do I like them?
Yes. the performance aspect of them. They are not a joke, they work.
There is no waiting for the secondaries to open and kick in. The carbs are right there, right at your foot.

No. They have two thing that irk me. When they are really running right. The exhaust system sweats. It sweats like it was in the deepfreeze and you are thawing it out with a blow torch.

Presuming that was the extent of the problem, maybe I could put up with it. No. The water, condinsation, whatever it is, mixes with the nice black exhaut soot inside the pipes and is not happy to releieve itself through the tail pipe opening like a current cat equipped car would do.

Instead it needs to relieve itself through every gasket in the exhaust system. It's a black gook that splashes all over everythin in the engine compartment.

The intake manifold, the inside of the decklid, everything.

Now the first time this everhappened I thought I blew the engine. No, not at all. When the engineisoff and cool and you go to wipe it up, it is not oily at all.

It is washable with windex and a paper towel.
So what's the big deal? You have to wash the engine everytime you want to use it.

When I get my NY 95 degree, 95% humidity weather, park the car. It's a dog to drive and the exhaust fumes linger.

SoCAl may be a different animal though. I don't know.

Future plans.

Go to TWM EFI throttle bodies on my Weber manifold. Halteck E6X CPU.

If that don't work, the Holley 750dp is still here on the shelf with the 341A intake.

I'm sure that the IR EFI will work great. I pray that the exhaust sweating issue is a Weber only deal. If it doesn't work maybe I'll take up golf?