Ryan Competition Carburetors
 

A lot of you know me, a lot of you don’t. My name is Billy Ryan I race Super Stock, on January 1st 2024 I took the leap and started my own Carburetor business “Ryan Competition Carburetors”. While I do carburetors for all facets of racing, I do a lot of stock and super stock carburetors. I am going to use this platform to show off the S/SS Carburetors in the shop from start to finish. I’ll do my best to stay up to date on it. I’ll answer questions more in-depth then on my facebook. Speaking of Facebook, if you could go to the Class Racer home page and hit my logo right above this forum it will bring you to my Facebook. Please like and follow the page that will keep you up to date with all the carburetors I am doing. 95% of the stuff I do is Holley based (includes Quickfuel & Billet) 4150 racing. I do some for street and some Quadrajets. Yes I can rebuild and refinish your Quadrajet, I am currently working on calibrations for different engines so until then I will just freshen them. If you need anything please don’t hesitate to reach out. Thanks for reading hope to see you back here soon 🤙🇺🇸

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These were a set of 660 center squirters for Tim Stickles

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No wonder Tim's Stocker runs so fast!

J.R.

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looks nice ---couple of questions ---why don't you eliminate the cross over tube and plug those ports and knock out the plug and thread the inlet ports on the secondary bowls have a fuel line going there too? makes it much easier to change jets plus you have even fuel distribution to both bowls??? ----- what base plates are you using on this setup??? --- why the vacuum plugs on the vent tubes?? overall it looks good nice clean---FED 387

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Thank you,
These particular carburetors, came on the customers purchased engine. They are believed to be tuned to the engine. Before we changed anything we decided we need to have a baseline. The dual feed could be something we do in the future, or maybe go to center hung bowls and billet metering blocks, but 1/2 through the year we need to make sure they are right for the combo before we changed anything. The baseplates are 1.750 which could also go to billet in the future. The vacuum caps are for shipping so nothing goes down the vent tubes.

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Billy did an amazing job on these carbs for me, I highly recommend giving him a shout for any carb related projects! If you could have seen these carbs when I sent them to Billy, which you can see on his FB page you will be amazed, thank you Billy for the great service and great turn around! I’m very impressed.

Tim Stickles

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Mr Ryan,
Very nice work (Carb Candy) and I wish you good fortune with the business.
Frank

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Here are a couple before and afters of John Cira’s Quadrajet.

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Billy

I haven't seen you mention Thermoquads. Any experience or magic up your sleeve with the black plastic monsters?

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I am sorry that is not in my repertoire.

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Ha! Apparently not in mine either!!!!

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Good morning to all,
The biggest problem facing us today is getting good usable core and parts.
Those carbs were pretty good, but never received the support from Carter.
We used to get the "Track Packs" Chrysler and one of the Direct Connection books and go from there. One problem I found was during service they were exposed to high heat and the Center Sections would warp and even found a few fuel passages shut down. These were mostly street carbs , the racer carbs usually survived much better. I still feel that it was a good carb, but misunderstood by most ( including myself ). Now fast forwarding to today I'd tackel them again, but I'd probably need to molest one or two to see what parts will need to be made or repurposed.
Not trying to HiJack your thread, but the parts problem is universal at this time.
Have a Good Day.

Respectfully,
Henry Kunz 1534 H/SA

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This brings me to something I've wondered about for a long time. I was racing a 70 340 Duster with the metal AVS. Shortly thereafter (the next year?) Mopar moved to the Thermoquad, and the main point I got from it was rejecting heat better than a metal casting. Looking back, the whole thing might have just been marketing speak because the change was in order to reduce costs.

Anyone have any idea if the phenolic body actually did anything? It didn't seem as if the cars that were using them were any quicker. And also, nobody I remember followed their lead.

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Good morning Dan and to all,
Those are all great points, and I now wonder if Carter was trying (at the time) to find an improvement in keeping the fuel in the fuel bowls cooler.
Using the Phenolic was a way for Carter to reduce the temps and have a ridged material that could stand up to heat cycling of a passenger car engine. Its too bad most of us working on those parts at the time weren't issued a warning on how to properly tighten those carbs with a torque wrench. Like the Q-Jet at the time most were over tightened and crushed.
Just some of what I have observed over the last 45 years.
Have a Good Day.

Respectfully,
Henry Kunz 1534 H/SA

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Wow what a year it has been. I just wanted to write this little snippet to say thank you and congratulate everyone on a successful year. When you first start off in business you think you have a direction it?s going to take you, instead it takes you completely opposite of your vision. I am nothing but thankful for that.

The Quickfuel 780 and 850 have been proving themselves on the dyno and on the track in stock, super stock, and comp.

3310, 4779, 4781,7867, Q-jets, and more, converted over to RCC are running very strong.

Can?t forget about our SS/AH Carburetors out there setting personal bests in ET and MPH

Want to thank our customers as we wouldn?t be able to do it without you. (In no specific order working off memory)

Tilburg race engines
Doug Bigwell
Pete D?Agnolo
Dan Fletcher
Rick Mann
Peter Manduri
Steve Comella
Don Shuford
Karl Martel
Cleve Stewart
Justin Lamb
Dylan Hough
Josh Barczy
John Cira
Lance Pinto
Barry Parker
Jimmy Defrank
Tim Stickles
Eddie Longany
Tom Nolan
Andy Kimball
Henry Specht
Bill Hahl
Brad Plourd
John Pops
Christian Fillipone

Very sorry if I forgot anyone.

Thank you again everyone. If we can help anyone out please don?t be afraid to reach out.

Don?t forget to follow us on Facebook for latest news and builds. You can either click the logo on CR homepage or search ?Ryan Competition Carburetors?

Wishing everyone happy holidays and a prosperous new year.
Billy @ RCC