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Carb plate, advantages? Is it needed?

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1993SSP

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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.
 

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

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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?
 

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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.
 

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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
 
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