Danny Byrd

[Eddie Rezac]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Mike , back in about 72-73 , the 540 Holley was the only carb available on the 66 Chevy II.
Joe Santangelo's original 66 ht ran 11.11 on our 11.33 record with that carb. at the end of '73. That car was nowhere near what we have in STOCK today. (2.52 Muncie, 28x9 slicks, 5.13's with slapper bars, NO roll bar)
I started to build a 66 post car for SS/E ..where the record was 11.10 at that time, and you got to use a 585 Holley..That project got sidelined when the index system was rumored.
You could use the Carter AVS in 66, but not the Qjet (I'm pretty sure Mike Moller used the AVS on his SS/K wagon)
Larry Tores came out with the 67 post car with a Q jet, and after a while ,NHRA relented on the Qjet 66 car.

The SS/GT car that Byron Setters has ,is the Corvette 300 hp version (585 carb), with some HP taken off, compared to the Qjet. I guess he and Gary Hettler tried to get some more off for the 540 Holley Chevy II engine, which should be somewhere in between the 65 4GC version, and what he has now, but NHRA said NO..Enough of this.
There ya go..best I can remember all this.

I have been in the auto repair business since the 1950"s, and worked on a ton of these cars, I also raced a record holding ,1966 Chevy II, in SS/H in the 1980"s . The majority of the 1966, Chevy 327, 275 Hp engines in all body styles, that I have came across, had the Q-Jet carb! I even have the the original NHRA spec sheets, that I received from our Div 5 tech director, in the late 60's, showing all 3 carbs, available, and I tried them all. The Q-Jet was by far the fastest!
Eddie Rezac