Hello! Log in or Register   |  Help  |  Donate  |  Buy Shirts See all banner ads | Advertise on TheSamba.com  
TheSamba.com
 
Strange Looking Holly VW Carb
Forum Index -> Vintage Speed Share: Facebook Twitter
Reply to topic
Print View
Quick sort: Show newest posts on top | Show oldest posts on top View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
planedude
Samba Member


Joined: June 19, 2005
Posts: 51
Location: Ft.Worth
planedude is offline 

PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found an strange looking Holly VW carb. It has a slightly canted 2bbl base unit and has the float bowl on top on a sort of pedistal. The air pulls into the base around the float bowl. The guy claims it is an "old school bug spray" as they were in the 1960's. I'm not so sure. Anyone remember the Bugsprays like this? If so what aircleaner would be used. This guy has no clue. It is still in it's OG Holly box.
Sorry I have no photo of the carb.
All the Holly carbs I've ever fooled with on bugs were the Pinto/Veaga like progressives ,back in the 70's....
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Classifieds Feedback
Bugman Jeff
Samba Member


Joined: May 20, 2004
Posts: 636
Location: Evansville, WI
Bugman Jeff is offline 

PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That may be a Holley Teapot, the infamous "Towering Inferno" used on 40's-50's Mercs and Lincolns. With the float bowl above the venturis, if you got a big enough backfire, the thing would go up in a tower of flame. A Bugspray is similar to the old Holley 94's, and has the float bowl off to the side like most carbs do.

Can you google it to see if you can find another like it? Any numbers on it or the box?
_________________
Restorer of Porsche Speedster 80486 Smile
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
planedude
Samba Member


Joined: June 19, 2005
Posts: 51
Location: Ft.Worth
planedude is offline 

PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know about owning anything for a VW with a nickname of "towering inferno"... Shocked
I shot a photo with my cell phone, but it is so small I can't read the box code on that small a screen.
I did Google "teapot" and this looks like one.
Thanks, it was just odd enough I had to ask. Have a good one.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Classifieds Feedback
dan-d
Samba Member


Joined: August 28, 2007
Posts: 188
Location: Florida Panhandle
dan-d is offline 

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I'm correct I think he's talking about one of these. I've seen them but never heard of them referred to as a "bugspray".

[img]
Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.
[/img]
_________________
72 Standard Beetle
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Gallery Classifieds Feedback
volkenstein
Samba Member


Joined: June 26, 2005
Posts: 857
Location: The Land of Oz
volkenstein is offline 

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All,
This might help :
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234435

Volkenstein
_________________
71 RHD AS Super - "Klaus"...
Wisdom of youth, energy of old age...
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Yahoo Messenger Classifieds Feedback
planedude
Samba Member


Joined: June 19, 2005
Posts: 51
Location: Ft.Worth
planedude is offline 

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dan-d wrote:
If I'm correct I think he's talking about one of these. I've seen them but never heard of them referred to as a "bugspray".

[img]
Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.
[/img]


Yes thats the one, except the one pictured is much, much nicer...

I have been looking for a period correct after market carb set-up. I told the guy at the swap I was looking for something correct for 1967-ish. He was proud to produce one of these carbs and tell me stories about it's 1960's history. He did not have or know about the manafoild.
I was not impressed (i'm looking for a "period correct" duel carb set-up) but I was curious enough to ask here as I was sure someone would know.

So I'll ask anyone ever seen this carb on a bug and if so , when?
Have a good one.

Oh, Wait I just checked The linked post. Now I see...


Last edited by planedude on Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:13 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Classifieds Feedback
dan-d
Samba Member


Joined: August 28, 2007
Posts: 188
Location: Florida Panhandle
dan-d is offline 

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I posted this on another thread, hope it helps.

I'm almost 60 and have been hot rodding most of my life, bck in the 70's I was really big into VW rail buggies and used many Holley Bugspray's. A Bugspray is nothing more than an old style Ford (late 40's to mid 50's) two barrel carb modified with a 4 bolt base (as opposed to the original 3 bolt), fitted with linkage for a VW and rejetted for the small cubes.

The carb in the picture above that someone on eBay is selling as a Bugspray is also an old early Ford / Mercury carb. I remember at some point they were also modified very similar to the Bugspray and sold as a Holley performance carb for the VW. But I've never heard them referred to as a Bugspray.

We always referred to them as a Holly gravity bowl 2 barrel because the float bowl is above the main body and throat.

We actually did get these to work pretty well for off roading but found them to be quite dangerous and quit using them.

If the float bowl isn't sealed tighter than Dicks hat band and you have a backfire up through the carb you will also get a huge fireball, for this reason these carbs were also called a Holley Fireball. - Dan
_________________
72 Standard Beetle
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Bugzilla
Samba Member


Joined: February 08, 2004
Posts: 240
Location: Rapid City, SD
Bugzilla is offline 

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's another thread on that carb in the photo--it was for sale on ebay a few weeks back and didn't sell. Some claimed it was referred to as a "Buggy Spray" (not a bugspray--I have a bugspray and it looks different).

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=327890&highlight=

~T
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
pcooper6753
Samba Member


Joined: January 16, 2009
Posts: 2

pcooper6753 is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:41 pm    Post subject: Buggyspray Reply with quote

That is in fact a Buggyspray carb. I had one on a Baja about 25 yrs ago. It was a 1600cc. The claim was that the horse shoe shaped float helped maintain float levels with sidehill and vertical climbs. As a note the idle jets needed to be sized smaller to lean out the idle. I had the hardest time finding an air cleaner.
I finally found one through K&N.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Classifieds Feedback
morymob
Samba Member


Joined: November 09, 2007
Posts: 4683
Location: east-tn
morymob is offline 

PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That carb u have in pic is not the "bugspray" carb sold for bugs. They came set up to just bolt on and hook up.Jets were sized for vw,throttle linkage had the arm assy on side to correct reverse direction of carb and to attach stock vw cable same as vw does. Small Ford v8/260 cid 0f early 60s used this carb without the mods. I ran one for a couple yrs in a 1650 bug, later switched to a 1650 i put into my 1st type 2 ,a 70. It ran really well and sure put the needed top end into the bus and also averaved 24-26 on road/60-65 mph. In COLD weather u have to add some carb heat,used stock elbow off rt head.Kits still available,cheap way to improve running as vws under carbed anyway. And u willrun into the bad-mouthers who probably didnt know/wouldnt get right to start. my 2cts
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
nextgen
Samba Member


Joined: August 19, 2004
Posts: 6008
Location: CONGERS, N.Y.
nextgen is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Strange Looking Holly VW Carb Reply with quote

I lived in the Bronx in 1969 got married and with the wedding money bought my First New 1969 bug. Needed something reliable to go to work and that surely beat out my 1960 MGA Roadster Race car, with no door hands or roll up windows.

But I was still a car guy and even lived next to EMPI East Coast Hq. But there carbs were just to expensive.

Bought a Holley Bug Spray with a Raja plenum Manifold. What a mistake.

The Plenum was an area below the two barrels then went to one pipe on each side to the single port heads.

Ran really bad got horrible gas mileage. At that period in life I did not have the time to play with it. Went back to stock carb and manifold and put on an EMPI extractor. I came with a Main Jet for my bug.

Maybe for larger race engines the bug spray was Ok but not for a stock car.

Later when I had more bugs did like the Holley Progressive Carb especially to replace the FI on T-4 cars.
_________________
email: [email protected]
The TYPE IV UPRIGHT CONVERSION MANUAL
BEETLE MAGNETIC DEFLECTOR SHIELDS
LETS TALK DUBS https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+cali+ghia https://letstalkdubs.libsyn.com/ep-200-joe-cali-ty...qI3xJTCzjs
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Forum Index -> Vintage Speed All times are Mountain Standard Time/Pacific Daylight Savings Time
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

About | Help! | Advertise | Donate | Premium Membership | Privacy/Terms of Use | Contact Us | Site Map
Copyright © 1996-2023, Everett Barnes. All Rights Reserved.
Not affiliated with or sponsored by Volkswagen of America | Forum powered by phpBB
Links to eBay or other vendor sites may be affiliate links where the site receives compensation.