However, the disparity I'm seeing is, at idle, if I put a vacuum gauge directly to the intake manifold, it reads 14.5 inHg. The readout on my Holley Sniper says I'm idling at 40 kPa. 14.5 inHg would be around 52 kPa. 40 kPa would be around 18 inHg. More @Wikipedia
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