as you may have read in the wanted section, I was asking if anyone could help me out with a carb. As you may have caught on, the car now officailly has been reawakend, so my 350 is alive. however the carb that was on the original, once running motor, is not going to work now as it is missing linkages and will not even let the car idle long enough to finish timing the damn thing. I was given a suggestion to put a 2barrel holley 500 carborator being told that it would be my best cost efficency bet, however i have an edelbrock performer intake and im not sure they are compatible. I can get a remanufactured holley for 220 on summit, is this something that will work or should I get another 650 edelbrach, or just rebuild a quadrajet i was given off a junk car?
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talk to cliff ruggles http://www.cliffshighperformance.com/index.html and rebuild the q-jet. you may also want to buy Ruggles' book on rebuilding and modifying q-jets.
but if you realloy want a different carb, i have a holley model 4175 carb that i bought new/rebuilt about 1 year ago.. call it $200 plus shipping OBO? it worked very well for me, it just wasn't big enough for my 383ci.
he's great to work with. he helped me out alot with my carb, and his prices are very good. however, i think it's more cost effective to send him the carb for the mods and rebuild. that's assuming you want max performance. in that case bleed holes and some passages have to be resized.
if the carb is originally from a 350 and your engine is relatively stock, then you could just do a basic rebuild with new rods, jets, and secondary hanger/cam
edit/add: i just read your other post and since it seems you're really tight on cash i'd just get the rebuild kit (i believe it cost me $180? and it came with EVERYTHING, which most kits don't. things like floats usually get left out. or make me an offer on the holley
if the carb is originally from a 350 and your engine is relatively stock, then you could just do a basic rebuild with new rods, jets, and secondary hanger/cam
edit/add: i just read your other post and since it seems you're really tight on cash i'd just get the rebuild kit (i believe it cost me $180? and it came with EVERYTHING, which most kits don't. things like floats usually get left out. or make me an offer on the holley
see, this motor was kinda pieced together, junk yard 74 4bolt main block, with later model heads, a slightly corroded edlebrock performer intake, with striped out water neck bolt holes, a nasty looking edelbrock carb. I didnt build the motor, it came out of some rednecks 82 silverado with 46 inch tires that hit a tree. the guy was arrested with a dui, and the truck was claimed by our towing company. I pulled the motor (with help) tore down the engine, I replaced all the gaskets, valve covers, timing chain cover,oil pan, fuel pump, water pump, oil pump, put a nice set of flowtech afterburner headers, pained the block chevrolet orange, pulled the blown buick v6, painted the engine bay, bought a new 2ply radiator, all new hoses, engine bay fuel line and see-thu filter, the truck had a full set of guages so i hooked them up, i got a new tach for christmas as well as brakes, my christmas present to myself was to start it and I have, but now this dang carb wont work and i need to be able to let it idle for timing, as well for the exhaust shop to put exaust on it and so i can drive it to a lift so i can put my brakes on it. (maybe this gives you an idea where im at and what i need lol)
Could be wrong here but for some reason i don't think the q-jet will bolt on to the performer intake. Seems like either the secondary throttle blades hit or the secondary linkage hit the intake or maybe the egr. OR i could just be crazy!
You are right. The Performer is designed with both paterens to accept speadbore and squarebore carbs. EGR is an option. Basically a little better than stock upgrade.
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