My Latest Carburetor (q-jet guys will get a kck out of this)

[JBreu]

Re: My Latest Carburetor (q-jet guys will get a kck out of t

Cool...How many of those utica clubs you go through during the rebuild????? LOL, I like those off the wall beers..Was stoked the other day when I saw that Genny 12 horse was coming back🙂

 

[pontiacgp]

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nice job and the engine compartment looks showroom. What year is it and do you have any pictures of the jeep?

 

[DRIVEN]

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Thats awesome! I dont understand how qjets get a shitty reputation.

Word! I would think that a small centrally located fuel bowl would do great off-road compared to a Holley or an Edelbrock.

 

[pontiacgp]

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plus he's using a brass float which is smaller than the plastic float which means more fuel in the bowl...

 

[DoubleV]

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Thats awesome! I dont understand how qjets get a shitty reputation.

Because people get old crusty Qjets that are calibrated for low performance smogger engines, do crap stock 'rebuilds' on them, and then install them on high performance engines and expect them to run great.

 

[Bonnewagon]

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Check out these specs, they are for the 68'-69' Pontiac OHC 250cid straight six Sprint option. The carb specs (jets/rods) should be right on the money for your 4.0.

 

[Justink]

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I love Q-jets but can't imagine needing that much carb on a 4.0. How's it run? What's the resistor block on the fender for?

that resistor is actually called a ballast resistor and is used to drop down the voltage to your fuel pump. It's bypassed on startup hence your fuel pump being loud.

 

[Oldsmoletick]

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Thanks guys!! Yes the q-jet is said to be by far superior to the holley or afb for offroad use, it is a damn shame they have such a bad rep, but on the other hand I'm perfectly happy with that. I don't think I've ever paid more than $5 for one 😀 . A friend of mine gave me a bunch beacause he hates them, the one on the jeep is one of those freebies, lol.

Check out these specs, they are for the 68'-69' Pontiac OHC 250cid straight six Sprint option. The carb specs (jets/rods) should be right on the money for your 4.0.

:shock: Awesome! Thanks Bonnewagon!! that will be very handy. 8)

I love Q-jets but can't imagine needing that much carb on a 4.0. How's it run? What's the resistor block on the fender for?

that resistor is actually called a ballast resistor and is used to drop down the voltage to your fuel pump. It's bypassed on startup hence your fuel pump being loud.

:shock: Thanks for clearing that up, I'd better re-attach that then, lol.

Jbreu: :lol: Far too many UC's went into this build, hahaha. My Dad's a Genesee fan, I didn't hear about 12 Horse comming back, it's funny you mention that, there is a 12 Horse sign hanging in the garage :lol: .

Pontiacgp: It's an 88, and yes I do have pictures of the jeep, I'll post a few up and give a little rundown on what this thing has gone through 8) .

 

[DRIVEN]

Re: My Latest Carburetor (q-jet guys will get a kck out of t

Check out these specs, they are for the 68'-69' Pontiac OHC 250cid straight six Sprint option. The carb specs (jets/rods) should be right on the money for your 4.0.

Well played! I didn't even consider this.

 

[Oldsmoletick]

Re: My Latest Carburetor (q-jet guys will get a kck out of t

As I said I would, here's some pictures of the jeep. A little background info first, a buddy of mine was about to send this jeep to the scrapper. He called me up to see if I wanted anything off it before it went, so I went up to take a look. Long story short, I ended up with the whole carcass, lol, and I do mean carcass. This friend of mine is one who I swap parts with on a regular basis, a few years ago I gave him an 8.5 30 spline posi rear end out of an ex police car for his 51 pontiac, when I asked him how much for the jeep, he said take it home with you, if you can use it you can have it, consider us even, yup I was stoked, haha. Onto the pics!

On July 2, this landed in the driveway.

It had a light roll over, so the roof needed some attention, quarter was wadded a bit, ne engine, missing door, hood, amongst other things, lol. It was rodent infested, so I gutted it for cleaning.

The roof after some strightening and filler, I didn't anything with the center, I left it as is, no one will see it when it's lifted any way, lol.

all primered up, lol.

I spent a bit of time cutting stretching and rolling my fender lips for extra tire clearence, rear quarter got a similar treatment, minus the stretch.

There you have it all painted. Labor day weekend.

Engine was taken from my 97.

Cleaned, resealed, and painted that wonderful AMC engine blue, lol.

The rest has been putting this back together, it recieved the dana 44 from the other jeep as well. A bit of time went into modfying and making parts to adapt the offy intake to the 4.0 head. It's nerve racking to take a grinder to a new $300 intake, but it had to done, then I found out about header clearence issues, had a few beers and solved that with a sawzall, grinder, torch, and welder, lol.

I had to lower the primary tube quite a bit.worked out well that I had a spare 4.0 head kicking around, lol.

Then the power steering adapter bracket.

Throttle/trans cable bracket, along with last nights tps bracket.

I was trying to stick to a budget of under $1000, it doesn't look like I'll be able to keep it though, I'm upto about $800 so far, and haven't bought tires yet, lol. So there you have it 4 months worth of work, lol. Enjoy!