Carb Replacement on a 1975 Sportster

I have a 1975 XLH1000 Sportster and would like to get rid of the POS original Bendix Carb. I was told that a good replacement would be a S&S E-Serries Shorty. Is this a good replacement? Will there be any issues with Jetting it? Any input would be helpful. Thanks!!

I'd go with a CV carb conversion. Ironheads run great & are a lot easier to tune with a stock carb off a 1991-2005 Sportster & the later model big twins that came with a carb use the same one. No doubt find good ones on e-Bay, etc. & they're pretty easy to work on. You'd need new throttle cables & intake manifold, but all the parts to make the conversion are readily available (JP Cycles, Dennis Kirk, V-Twin catalogs, etc.) & that carb is a "set it & forget" it deal. 42 slow jet, 165 main & 2.5 turns out on the idle mixture screw would be the baseline & while the main may need to changed, I'd bet the slow wouldn't & jets are cheap. And once you get it dialed in, you're done - no more messing with the carb.

a 75 didnt have a bendix as the stock carb. it ran a keihin. the post ive read are all good suggestions for more power,but you do need to consider the rpm range you ride in. an adjustable mainjet bendix is hard to beat on any engine under 84 cubic inches for normal road use. top end use the S&S works fine.the best alround carb ive used is the flat slide.i prefer the lectron on single canle throttles and edelbrock for dual cable application. both were designed by the same man and when properly dialed in will outperform any carb on the market,past and present. i hope this ol man's opinion doesn't offend anyone.

Thanks for all the input. I believe that I will go with the CV Carb. Gotta get it done soon....Spring has almost sprung!!

Good call!

My 75 sporster came with a bendix as a stock carb,I was running an s&s but it is too big,I put on a cv 40mm this winter,I will find out how it is as soon as it warms up.