Whats your take on them? PITA to maintain? Anything?
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Predator 6000 carbs
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Do they even still make them? It's been years since I have seen one in use.
Predator carbs will always make me think of the old "USA 1" monster truck, I remember it having 3 of them sitting on top of the blower poking up through the hood 
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Sorry, no usefull info from me on the carbs themselves
.Sorry, no usefull info from me on the carbs themselves
I ran a Predator for 6~8 years on my old truck. It's a good carb for it's purpose, it's extremely throttle responsive and can take a fair amount of bouncing before it stumbles. Don't put it on anything you want decent mpg from, mileage will drop to able a 1/4 of what it was with a regular carb (my truck went from 12 to ~4 mpg).
The can be very vulnerable to dirty fuel, just the orange film left from gas will shut one down, literally. The upside is 30 minutes and a can of carb cleaner and your running again. They're extremely simple, only 2 moving parts in it.
They would have you believe you need a carb with the street idle circuit for use on anything other than a racer but mine was the race version and wasn't a problem to tune or adjust/set idle. I used it on my daily driver/wheeler for years.
Towards the end TARussell and I were using on his roller motor in my truck at local mud bogs. We thought it ran great and was doing a good job until someone offered us a Dominator to try - no comparison, Dominator wins. After comparing the 2 carbs, the Predator was real lazy getting to WOT whereas the Dominator was almost scarey it was so fast.
I'm not knocking the Predator, it's a neat carb but imo not for racing.
The can be very vulnerable to dirty fuel, just the orange film left from gas will shut one down, literally. The upside is 30 minutes and a can of carb cleaner and your running again. They're extremely simple, only 2 moving parts in it.
They would have you believe you need a carb with the street idle circuit for use on anything other than a racer but mine was the race version and wasn't a problem to tune or adjust/set idle. I used it on my daily driver/wheeler for years.
Towards the end TARussell and I were using on his roller motor in my truck at local mud bogs. We thought it ran great and was doing a good job until someone offered us a Dominator to try - no comparison, Dominator wins. After comparing the 2 carbs, the Predator was real lazy getting to WOT whereas the Dominator was almost scarey it was so fast.
I'm not knocking the Predator, it's a neat carb but imo not for racing.
I haven't seen one in almost ten years.
Martin
Martin
I have messed around with one, it seemed to me that they are more apt to be tuned like a race carb, from zero to WOT and back again they work good.
But like I said the carb seemed happier the more you were at WOT, didnt' really like part throttle stuff
But like I said the carb seemed happier the more you were at WOT, didnt' really like part throttle stuff
