mike_rudy

Has anyone used a preditor carb on a rotary before? If you don't know what it is, it is a carb with venturies that get bigger as more air is needed, the one that i have starts at 300 then goes to 900 cfm, i am going to have a try with it on my MFR PP engine, and am just wondering if anyone has used one, i will post a link to the website later, Thanks<mike

mike_rudy

http://www.predatorcarb.com/

treceb

sounds interesting. being raised around ACVWs, im a fan of two barrel carbs, but this is definite looking good.



wonder how PP will work with alcohol???

http://www.predatorcarb.com/performance/alcohol.html







bonkers, theyre made in jersey...

RageX^NZ

A guy by the name of Chris Cully had a supercharged 13B here in NZ and was running a 900cfm predator carb on it.



I dont have his contact details but there was an article on his car in "New Zealand Performance Car" magazine a few years back.



You could email them and see if they have the back issue.



www.performancecar.co.nz

turbovr6

WOW I hav'nt heard that name in years. I've seen them on some v8 muscle cars, and they were allways a problem. Variable Venturi Carb.

Scary Idea if you ask me.

HeffSpooled

I have a spine-tingling story that involves a Predator carb. After all these years it still makes me wonder.



The year was about 1985 or so and I was a sophmore in HS. My Dad had a buddy with a '32 Ford roadster he had just finished building. I don't remember the details but it was small block with a Predator carb and auto tranny. It was gorgeous with real wire wheels, etched glass and exposed chrome engine.



He brought it over one day and after he took my Dad for a ride but before I got a chance, we were all standing around the idling car discussing all it's niftynous when the wierdest thing happened. It was sitting there all by itself idling in neutral when all of a sudden it popped into reverse and took off backwards. Wouldn't have been all that odd if it had just idled backwards, but it revved like someone was giving it throttle. Not wide open, but enough. How the **** this happened I will never know.



What I felt in that moment was very disturbing. This beautiful car was on it's way to destruction and there was not a god damn thing any of us could do about it. And I didn't even get a ride in it.



The results could have been much worse. It only had about 20 or 30 yards to gain momentum and one of the rear wheels took the impact of the tree squarely. Luckily the tree had a slight lean to it so after the impact it kind of rode up the tree and came down on a stack of pallets which kept the still spinning wheels off the ground or it would have kept going.



OK, I can understand a faulty detent allowing it to get into gear, but how the throttle was actuated I have no clue.