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Excerpt from How to Rebuild and Modify
Carter/Edelbrock Carburetors by Dave Emanuel

 

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The Four-Barrel Era
Through the 1940s, life was good for the Carter Carburetor Company. It continued to supply
original equipment carburetors, but the introduction of mass-produced eight-cylinder engines
created a need for fuel and air handling capacity that exceeded the capacity of a one-barrel
carburetor. To answer the demand, Carter introduced the BBD two-barrel, which made its debut beneath the hood of a DeSoto, a Chrysler Corporation brand that was discontinued in November 1960. This efficient carburetor, albeit with significant changes, was produced until the early 1980s.

The second and more important event—one that inexorably changed the history of the carburetor—was the introduction of the world’s first four-barrel. This original design, called the WCFB (for Will Carter Four Barrel), appeared atop the aging, Buick straight-eight engine.

Wayne Graefen wrote:
> There are multiple definitions of WCFB and I don't know that anywhere
> in Carter literature was any one ever said to be the only one nor was
> any other ever said to be wrong.
>
> I personally favor "William Carter Four Barrel" (after the founder of
> the company)but many people prefer "White Cast Four Barrel" (after the
> metal of the majority of the metal parts) and "Wrought Cast Four
> Barrel" was new to me upon seeing it on the list this morning.
>
> There were 21 of the 300D EFI cars built according to factory
> records. Thirty five has always been the total number of '58 Mopars
> discussed and rumored as having been built so that leaves 14 amongst
> DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth as there definitely were no Imperials.
>
> Wayne G
>
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