What is the best carb???

[Michael A. Glenn]

I know that people have personal preferences on their fav carbs and I like Holleys personally but Im confronted with the following dilemma. My Rochester E4ME isnt opening the secondaries, the motor is supposed to be a rebuild and I have no Idea what was done and what wasnt. That being said I dont know if the carb has ever been worked on and find it at this point not worth the hit and miss of a rebuild and hoping its got the right size jets and  dialed in correctly. My question (s) are as follows. The motor is supposed to have 240 hp stock and 400 tf lbs of torque, is a 800 cfm needed??? Next.... would a Holley or Edelbrock be better?? I know Edelbrock is a out of the box drop in done type set up and a Holley needs some fine tuning but which would be worth it in the long run.Thanks in advance... Ohhh should I get a manual electric or non choke version, currently there is an electric on it.

[Russell E Johnson]

Well I am going to go a different track, I wish I had taken the $900 it cost me for the carb on our Southwind with a 454 and added $3-400 to it and converted to fuel injection. I have no real complaints about the way our MMP (Mobile Money Pit) runs, it has gone from Arkansas to Montana 4 times and to Arizona once and never given us a bit of trouble.  But if I could be squeezing out even 1 more MPG it would be nice.  We have the electric chock on our Rochester carb.