Carb plate, advantages? Is it needed?

[1993SSP]

My car has a edlebrock carb and intake, it has a spacer between the carb and intake, my problem is that the breather hits the hood, is this place needed?? It is about 1/2 inch thick, removing this would give me the clearance I need, the intake is a RPM Air Gap intake.

 

[93 LX]

i cut my hood but my car has a factory hood scoop

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

I've never had any luck with spacers...i would at least take it off and see how the car runs without it. I tried one with my Stealth and it killed the bottom end...just killed it. I've heard that a 4 hole spacer is better than an open spacer and effects bottom end and throttle response less (negatively) but i haven't tried one since.

What intake/carb are you using?

 

[Fast63]

It's perfectly alright to remove the spacer. Just make sure you don't have any interference elsewhere, like the throttle linkage getting hung up on anything.

 

[1993SSP]

It is a edlebrock 600 4 barrel carb and a edlebrock rpm intake, the spacer plate is the 4 hole type, it does not look like the carb will have any linkage issues, I'll try it without it and see how it goes