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New guy with a Quadrajet and a question.....
jakenok:
Hi everyone, my name is Jake and I recently picked up a nice 1974 era QJet (I'll get the number tonight) Chevy federal model carb. I dated it based on the info on the site here. My application is a 1987 Corvette, with a L98 engine, basically stock with the 083 heads (this is an iron head engine from a '89 Pontiac GTA). I may change the heads later to get some more horsepower, and maybe a mild cam upgrade too. The car is a semi daily driver. The engine has a Wieand Street Warrior intake and th eengine is fired by an Accel HEI. Car has a 700R4 transmission and 3.07 rear gears. Currently the car has an Edelbrock 1406 on it.
questions:
1. Is this a decent carb for this car? (its very clean and looks not to have been "factory rebuilt")
2. It has a divorced choke and my manifold does not have provisions for the choke stove to attach.
any viable solutions?
3. If I choose to run it without a choke, must I remove the divorced choke apparatus?
4. I'm on a pretty tight budget, so I guess I am looking for ways to use this carb.
carmantx:
You can probably use, it but post the number when you get it.
With the divorced choke on carb, and no provisions on the intake, I would remove all of the choke components on the carb. It won't be useful unless you wanted to wire a manual choke cable. I have seen several people try to rig up an electric choke to the divorced choke carbs, but I have not heard of any good solution.
Also check your throttle arm to make sure you have what you would need for transmission.
jakenok:
7044202 DC. Date 1984
Ethan1:
--- Quote from: jakenok on March 18, 2015, 05:40:10 PM ---7044202 DC. Date 1984
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1974. Do not think I would start with that carb though.
By the way, Welcome to CHP.
jakenok:
--- Quote from: Ethan1 on March 18, 2015, 05:50:31 PM --- 1974. Do not think I would start with that carb though.
By the way, Welcome to CHP.
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Thanks for the welcome. Why wouldn't you use it?
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