Hello all,

Just an advisery to everyone (dont know who knows and who doesnt) I purchased a "NEW" Holley street avenger 670 4 months ago from Summit. As of the beginning of the week the idle has been rather sporadic. So i pulled the carb off last night, i was going to jet up anyway so i figured id take a look-see. As i pulled off the Secondary bowl a TON of white chalky corrosion and Metal chunks came dumping out.........you could imagine the look on my face . I called Holley today figuring i would skip the middle-man. I talked to Shawn at Holley tech, i gave him the date code number he paused and said wait you bought this 4 months ago? I assured him i did, he then explained to me the date code was the 242nd day of 2006!!! In 2006 they had a casting issue with a manufacterer not coating the zinc parts or some other mumbo jumbo. He told me to send it back to him as soon as i can and he will send me a bran-spanking-new 670 off the shelf there in Kentucky. NO CHARGE. So just a fair warning that not everthing off the shelf is as new as you would like to think. Ill post a pic of it later

 

That sucks.
Good thing my holley is from 1970 and not 2006.

 

Hopefully the new "2011" model does not suck as bad. What was wierd is Shawn at Holley told me only a select few of the Street driven carbs were suseptable and that it was more of a marine carb manufacered probelm. I guess im just lucky is all