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If it is a keeper you could spend the money to get a new production holley 350 2bbl carb I'm not sure that would be all that much better. Just the other day I was talking with the owner of an old-car biz (about headlamps for an '80s Chev van they're building for a customer). He was skeptical of the "Holley" Retrobright headlamps(haped trinkets), and when I told him he was right to doubt them and explained why, he said it was the same story as pretty much all the rest of the Holley parts offering. I said I liked it better when they stayed in their lane and concentrated on making carburetors. He said, I'm quoting here, "Also mediocre. They had to buy a real carb company (Quick Fuel) to have a product that was competent. Then they watered that brand down with their usual substandard manufacturing. It's regular practice to have to disassemble and clean out machining chips from a new Holley carb."
Quote: A few months ago I asked about the preferred carb for a stockish 225 that is available. The answer was to get an old needing rebuilt ford/autolite 2050/2150 two barrel carb. 2100/2150, see threads here and here; Michael Ehrmann is the whisperer on these carbs. Email I have for him is michael.ehrmann@hotmail.com ; might still be valid.
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). This, too, is not applicable when shopping for a Slant-6 carburetor. Almost all Slant-6 applications, including your '85, use a remote choke setup; the choke is not part of the carburetor. You can certainly install an electric choke kit; which one depends on what carburetor you wind up with.