Holley 1920 missing parts - time to swap?

Carburetor operation and repair manuals and links to training movies and carb repair/modification threads are posted here for free download -- including a lot of info on fixing and improving the 1920.

That replacement carb from Daytona is an import from Argentina. It has its origins in an ancient local-production licence from Holley to an Argentinian company for the early Valiants in that country. Needs a manual choke, needs linkage adaptation, and it's pretty stone-age with none of the advances and improvements made over the 1920s lifespan though it does have a separate cast iron throttle body. It's a shame the maker (Caresa, website here) didn't pick up and run with the later and better local Holley 1922, but they didn't.

I do wonder what kind of float (brass...?) might be in that Argentinian carb and whether it might be a go in a US 1920 carb. For the record, I never experienced difficulties using the 7.5g and 12.5g 1920 floats interchangeably as long as the correct float spring was used, too.

Overall I like the Carter BBS, which was factory equipment (production option with the 1920 Holley) on Slant-6s '60 through '71 on cars, through '74 on domestic trucks, later than that on export trucks, quite a lot better than the 1920. But these days questions of which is the superior carb design are usually outweighed by what carb you can find that's in good condition.


Well there you have it from Dan "the expert".....I have a new 12.5 gram float here if you can find a spring