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Defending reman carbs?
slicer87:
This is something I ran into on a Chevy forum. There is this one member who is defending reman Qjets, that the engine can't tell the difference if the airhorn, base plate, or main body match up. How can anyone defend these ruined carbs? Besides trying to convince people that it is okay to waste their money on reman Qjets that will never work right? It is just mind boggling :o .
omaha:
I know, its a crap shoot. Who knows what is in them. at least if you do the rebuild youself, you know what youve got. You are better off. Plus, you get the experience of learning how its done and how it works. Just bolting one on is like a shot in the dark! and you dont learn anything. Some just like bolting something on without learning anything. to those I say, whatever floats your boat! I can fix it when it screws up. BTW, I'll be charging by the hour. Now how much did you pay for it?? LOL EVen just bolting on a new Holley does not mean it is right for what youve got. I just did a Qjet for a kid who bought a holley for a bone stock 350 chevy. After the 3 foot fireball burt the under side of his hood, he came over to my buds shop and was asking for advice. My bud told him to come see me. I ended up jus building him a qjet that I paid 15 bucks for with a basic kit from cliff. (it was a 77 olds carb so I new it would be just about right). It was. He gave me the holley as a payment and a couple of qjet cores to boot but his truck ran just perfect. Of course I had to tune it in and redo the firing order and adjust the valves.
Anybody wanna buy a 650 holley vac secindary with bright finish! it pretty! (lol, lol). Oh well, I tried to teach the kid something by makin him watch and help and told him what was what and why. Maybe some of it sank in.
Cliff Ruggles:
It's no "crap shoot" these days buying commercially "remanufactured" carbs. They are pure JUNK! I don't even want one sent here to be worked on. They are so labor intensive, I'd rather start with a worn slam out core that's been sitting on a shelf someplace for 30 years! Gonna be a much better end result with 1/3rd the labor time put into it.
It would take many pages to go into great detail on all the problems we find with them, so I'll be brief and hit the high points.
The castings are acid dipped and "softened" up. About half the time the threads are GONE for the fuel inlet seat, and some POS deal with 2 "O" rings pressed in there instead.
Lead plugs driven into the idle bypass air holes.
EXTREMELY rich idle calibrations, and main fuel as well. This is done to minimize customer complaints, and less come-backs. If it's lean, it's certainly going to get returned. Super rich, just uses a lot of gas and washes down the customers engine!......Cliff
slicer87:
--- Quote from: Cliff Ruggles on June 07, 2011, 03:11:34 AM ---It's no "crap shoot" these days buying commercially "remanufactured" carbs. They are pure JUNK! I don't even want one sent here to be worked on. They are so labor intensive, I'd rather start with a worn slam out core that's been sitting on a shelf someplace for 30 years! Gonna be a much better end result with 1/3rd the labor time put into it.
It would take many pages to go into great detail on all the problems we find with them, so I'll be brief and hit the high points.
The castings are acid dipped and "softened" up. About half the time the threads are GONE for the fuel inlet seat, and some POS deal with 2 "O" rings pressed in there instead.
Lead plugs driven into the idle bypass air holes.
EXTREMELY rich idle calibrations, and main fuel as well. This is done to minimize customer complaints, and less come-backs. If it's lean, it's certainly going to get returned. Super rich, just uses a lot of gas and washes down the customers engine!......Cliff
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I know reman Qjets are junk and to stay far away from them. But it seems there are some people out on the net who don't want to believe how messed up the reman Qjets are now. Not only that but they try to get other people to waste their money on reman carbs too. I guess they don't want to accept the truth about how awlful reman carbs are.
davis95:
I'm not a fan of remans either. The last one I had looked like a combo plate at a mexican restaurant. The rods and jets didn't have any markings and the base plate looked like it came from another carb. I did a stock rebuild on it and it ran pretty good when I was finished, but It would have taken some time if I were to build it for a performance engine.
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