Is it returnable if it doesn’t tune properly?

 

within 90 days, that is what the website states.

This is there description of all refurbished carbs:
This is an official Holley Performance Factory Refurbished Carburetor. Factory Refurbished carbs are NOT old worn-out carbs that have been rebuilt. They are carbs that were returned under warranty. When these carbs are returned, we check them out and most of the time there is nothing wrong with them. Generally, they were simply adjusted out of working range by the installer. Since these carbs may show signs of a previous installation, our policy is not to sell them as new. Rather than scrapping them, we are making them directly available to the public. Not only does this help us control the costs of our new carbs, it allows you to get a great deal on a like-new carburetor! Factory Refurbished carbs have undergone a thorough inspection. Any damaged parts that would effect performance have been replaced and the carbs are solvent cleaned before being wet-flow-tested on Holley's state-of-the-art flow benches allowing them to be recalibrated to new carb specs. Factory Refurbished carbs may have scratches, blemishes, and other visual flaws from previous installation. Factory Refurbished Carburetors have limited availability.

 

There seems to be a lot of oddball models available and not much 'normal' street stuff. Makes me wonder if most of the returns are from people ordering carbs without really knowing the differences between them - then, returning them? Maybe.

 

I agree with this 100% and was a concern when I was looking at them.
On the other side of the coin I read on another forum that is because they get scooped up immediately.

I took a gamble and signed up for the "notify me" thing on a Holley 4150 Ultra 750 double pumper with electric choke, got the notification about 10 - 12 days later and ordered it. It showed up today. It looks brand new, was packaged like new and came with all the small parts you would expect. It may be Christmas or New Years weekend (I hope) before I get to it though... I have a couple things in front of installing this. The carb I bought retails for $882, I got the refurb for $447, pretty much half price. Hope my deal goes like @SY1 did.

 

A lot of folks say the Holley carbs are for racing and not daily drivers. Although I prefer Rochester, I've had good experience with Holley in years past.

 

I had a refurbished carb from Holly back in 2016 or so. It worked decent out of the box

 

I bought one once. Never again. Their claim of checking over returned carbs is BS. On mine the curb idle screw was tapped off location so bad it didn't make any contact with the cross shaft. I fixed that myself only to find the casting was so porous fuel would leak into one of the primary bores just sitting. Also the installed jets were not the size as advertised. There's no way they did anything other than clean it and re-box. I bought the carb early in my restoration and hadn't checked it out within the 90 day window so they wouldn't honor the warranty. I was SOL. Here's a pic showing the miss-mated idle screw and cross shaft.

 

Yes all very positive for me. I purchased a second 600cfm to match the one I had for use on my street crossram build. Could not tell it from a new carb. It shows up fully tested, calibrated, complete bag of all loose items sold on a brand new carb, test/calibration certification tags, preservation oiled, same new box a brand new carb ships in, all springs and hardware appeared new, not even a scratch or mark on this thing. In my case you would not know it wasn't brand new. Same warranty as any new Holley carb. In most cases they said these are carbs that someone that shouldn't be trying to tune a carb, did try and had no idea how to get back to how it was out of the box. I would buy factory furbished from them without hesitation.

I had 4K mile unmodified 600 and this refurbed carb was the same model. I converted both 4150 models and other mods needed to use on my project. 1st pic is the ad with a generic pic Holley used in ad, next 2 provide some detail of how clean/nice the main body, baseplate & primary metering block still are on the refurb carb (everything else on carbs I modified to allow use of GM style fuel lines & throttle cable system. Purchased my refurb carb March 2020.

Alan definitely has reason to be upset, maybe I got lucky? Hopefully others chime in to help with your decision. For me I really just needed the core of carb and wanted to know I'd get a good one.

 

Great deal on a nice model! $229 for mine was a no brainer vs buying someones used problem. Or worse $2K-5K for geniune crossram carbs. No reason to spend that type of $ on a street project for fun, I don't think I have 2K into the crossram project. LOL.

 

@SY1 that engine is sick man.

valve covers are cool!

 

Thanks! It started out a fun project, a lot of things required a lot more thought. But happy now and the factory flat hood closes just fine with no trimming of hood reinforcement. Got lucky. It kiled me to trim tbe vintage Ansen covers to clear the crossram, but its the only way they fit with .500" raised valve cover rail heads.

Good luck with your project, killer price for that carb!

 

Humans rebuild them and not all are perfect at their jobs. Should not judge a company by 1 incident. I have bought 2 with no issues. JMO

 

I have Kurt at Carbs -R- Us In Thomaston CT rebuild all my carbs. He has done many for me and my friends. Great reputation. Holley, Rochester, Tri powers, whatever. Plug and play. Second generation carb shop. No complaints. Easy for us local guys....no shipping.

 

Q-jets don't even make good paper weights.

 

That's strange. Had them rebuilt and ran on a Dyno and after years they were fine. Typical internet....only one person in the world is right about everything.

 

My Q-Jet has was rebuilt for the all original 350 SS in 1990 and has performed great with no other adjustments. Not to say the other 30 cars that have gone through the shop with Q-Jets that are fine. They are very good carbs.