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At 08:13 PM 01/30/2002, you wrote: >Replies to this message are sent to The Chevelle Mailing List >------------------------------------------------------------ > > >The history of the AFB for those who are interested, is that years ago >Carter made them, hence the Carter AFB. This was when Carter was owned by >a company called ACF (if memory serves). At some point in the 80's, ACF >sold the carter brand to Federal Mogul. They made what they thought was >10 years worth of carburators and scrapped the tooling. The assumption >was that the design would become obsolete due to emission controls and >electronics. They ran out of carburetors well before 10 years, (I think >it was around 1986 or 7 that your couldn't get your hands on a new one >anymore). Edelbrock, seeing an opportunity to make a buck, negotiated a >deal for the patents with Federal Mogul. They contracted with Weber to >cast the bodies from the old design & FM patents. They (Edelbrock) >redesigned the internals somewhat. >FM retained the right to use the design also, which is why you can buy the >carburetor from both companies. About 5 years ago, the last I was >associated with FM, they used a version of the original internals. So >both Edelbrock and Carter carbs look similar and use the same casting, but >somewhat different internals. Glenn, thank you for straightening that out. I knew that they had bought the design (read patents) from someone connected to Carter carbs, just didn't want to argue the point anymore. So there's the end to the "urban legend".... Kelly C. Hanna www.hannawoodworks.com ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
