Eldebrocks are the Carter AFB clone. I'd warn against the aftermarket or reman quadrajet. Had one that was junk. Got a decent original core and rebuilt it.
Eldebrocks are the Carter AFB clone. I'd warn against the aftermarket or reman quadrajet. Had one that was junk. Got a decent original core and rebuilt it.
That's good to know, maybe mine was built on payday Friday. I love a quadrajet. You either love them or hate them and sometimes both in my case.
Maybe so, I'm usually the guy that happens to lol. I know several guys running them on 302, 351, 347 stroker, etc. So far so good, all purchased from JEGS.
Haha! QJ on Fords. Love it!
Don't forget to cut the Ford kick down linkage off of the Ford carb and weld it to the Qjet. Yea I ran them on my Ford also.
I built a mild steel Intake manifold for a 260Z Datsun to run a 4 Barrel carb.. Used an old 60's original Carter AFB That Z car got better MPG than any of the 5 of them I had including the Fuel Injected ones.
Some of those got a carb also.. That homemade intake got 27 MPG... I did Modify the plenum Floor in it. I welded long beads in the floor below the carb pad that ran in the dirrection of the runners,, This to keep fuel atomized as it hit the floor.
Look into the old edelbrock performer intake.. No beads or waffeled floor.. just a flat floor.
Look into the newer performer EPS or the RPM intake ..Or look into the Qjet intake.. Waffled floor ..Ridges whatever you wish to call them.
So many little things like that are overlooked .
You must keep those fuel droplets atomized.. Only the air around the droplet burns.
Break them up smaller and make more power get better MPG.
You will be surprised how well a carb will atomize fuel through a well thought out intake tract.
That is One reason have not jumped on the FI band wagon. That and I am a tight wad
I built a mild steel Intake manifold for a 260Z Datsun to run a 4 Barrel carb.. Used an old 60's original Carter AFB That Z car got better MPG than any of the 5 of them I had including the Fuel Injected ones.
Some of those got a carb also.. That homemade intake got 27 MPG... I did Modify the plenum Floor in it. I welded long beads in the floor below the carb pad that ran in the dirrection of the runners,, This to keep fuel atomized as it hit the floor.
Look into the old edelbrock performer intake.. No beads or waffeled floor.. just a flat floor.
Look into the newer performer EPS or the RPM intake ..Or look into the Qjet intake.. Waffled floor ..Ridges whatever you wish to call them.
So many little things like that are overlooked .
You must keep those fuel droplets atomized.. Only the air around the droplet burns.
Break them up smaller and make more power get better MPG.
You will be surprised how well a carb will atomize fuel through a well thought out intake tract.
That is One reason have not jumped on the FI band wagon. That and I am a tight wad
speaking of 71buickfreak.
Clydes carburetors in OKC went out of business around 1989 and they had an auction.
I purchased the entire Buick section,
I only wanted the 4 barrels .. I should have kept the 2 barrels also .. but i had 3 35 gallon trash cans full of them and 2 barrels were everywhere.
Man you ever try to find a gm 2 barrel carb at a salvage yard lately.
I went to 4 yards and got 1 and that was 5 years ago.
I ended up with 53 carter AFB carbs from the Buick section and some Rochester 4 jet carbs and someone stuck a 1967 440 Mopar AFB in the mix.
I loaned it to a friend,, never to be seen again.. That is OK he gave me his busted 61 caddy many years later. It all worked out.
What carb do you have on that 71 Buick???
Clydes carburetors in OKC went out of business around 1989 and they had an auction.
I purchased the entire Buick section,
I only wanted the 4 barrels .. I should have kept the 2 barrels also .. but i had 3 35 gallon trash cans full of them and 2 barrels were everywhere.
Man you ever try to find a gm 2 barrel carb at a salvage yard lately.
I went to 4 yards and got 1 and that was 5 years ago.
I ended up with 53 carter AFB carbs from the Buick section and some Rochester 4 jet carbs and someone stuck a 1967 440 Mopar AFB in the mix.
I loaned it to a friend,, never to be seen again.. That is OK he gave me his busted 61 caddy many years later. It all worked out.
What carb do you have on that 71 Buick???
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Midwest City
I used them several time when I had a Chevy Blazer with a Quad....
2300 S Air Depot
Midwest City
I used them several time when I had a Chevy Blazer with a Quad....
