Ponycarb Questions

[cdherman]

OK, I think a lot of folks over here have used ponycarbs to rebuild their carbs, or to get rebulit ones. The fellows over in the 240-300 forum seem to be hell bent on scraping their old autolite 1101's and getting 2 and 4 barrels.

I have an 1101. Ran good about 6 months ago when this all got started. Now, in the midst of a frame up restore, I am ready to starting putting things back together. In the mean time, the engine/frame sat outdoors with no hood (or cab for that matter) over it for about a month. It did have the aircleaner on. When I pulled the carb to sand blast the engine, I noticed a little water had ran down the aircleaner threaded rod, through the carb and into the intake. Just a little. There is a tiny area of rust on the main valve at the bottom of the carb. Everything else appears fine.

My options are:
1) Put it all back together and see what happens
2) Do a basic carb rebuild myself. ( I am getting pretty good at this stuff!!)
3) Send off to ponycarbs (or someone else you might suggest?) and have it rebuilt.

I would like to have a highly reliable carb when I am done. I want it to be able to sit for weeks/months and fire right up. I want to drive this vehicle from Kansas to Massachusetts someday. It needs to be done right.

Ponycarbs is pricy. They promise a lot. They say they "correct defects in the original design". Do they do things to the carb which make it immpossible for me to rebuild it myself in 10 years? Are they worth the money?

Thanks.......

 

[CobraSix]

Don't know what they do to the carb, but they generally live up to their promises for correctinf performance problems. I have one, runs great. Worth the money I spent on it (I bought mine used). As far as Making it impossible to rebuild, I don't think so. I think they fix things you can't get to during a normal rebuild. I've never rebuilt an 1101, so I can't honestly tell you. I've rebuild a couple of 2100s and Holley 350s, soI can't imagine them being much different.

I think they are worth the money.

Slade

 

[mugsy]

I bought a Pony Carb. It is sitting in a box on the shelf as I write. The thing never ran right. I called them about 10 times to help troubleshoot the thing and the told me the balancer had moved, the dizzy was malfunctioning, my vac gauge didn't read correct.... they blamed everything but their carb :x . I was impressed that they could trouble- shoot my car over the PHONE!! She stumbled real bad coming off of idle with their carb. When I finally looked down the carb throat at idle and saw fuel puddling on the thottle plate I ripped it off the car and replaced it with my rebuilt 1940. She has run right since.

If you get a good carb it works great, but if it is junk like mine they offer ZERO product support !!!!! I guess yous pays your moneys and takes yours chances!

Mugsy

 

[CobraSix]

I bought mine used off a guy converting to a V-8...so i knew it was running right. Never heard about customer service, thanks for the insight.

Slade

 

[Anonymous]

Mine bolted up toot sweet. Haven't had a problem. Haven't had to adjust a thing.