[panhandler62]

I'll just say "me too" to a couple of posts here. It's absolutely a carb tuning issue *AND* -- a q-jet that is in good shape and tuned right will beat just about anything for *overall* performance (which includes economy.)

Q-jets do *everything* pretty good. Most specialty carbs do a *couple* things better than a q-jet but give up performance in other respects to do it.

For instance --nothing makes top-end power like a big bore Holley type carb, but the damn things thing gas is still 38 cents a gallon.