Most people hate these things, and a handful of people are loyal to them. Found this video via a Facebook group...
Rexter said:
Quadrajunk
Stat Monitor Repairman said:
This is what I love about modern times. Theres a youtube video about every conceivable thing.
Wanna see some redneck jumping a Buick LaSabre? boom ... you got it.
TxSquarebody said:
I learned a few tricks from an old man that could really build a quadrajet. I do ok with one, but nothing like some of the wizards. Unfortunately, most of that knowledge is dying.
Burdizzo said:TxSquarebody said:
I learned a few tricks from an old man that could really build a quadrajet. I do ok with one, but nothing like some of the wizards. Unfortunately, most of that knowledge is dying.
There used to be a legendary guy Cliff who had a whole business dedicated to Q-Jets. He even did road shows where he would put on clinics and tune people's carbs. He has pretty much shut down, but there is a guy in Waring, TX near Comfort who has pretty much anything you need for a QJet. I think he has a warehouse full of variants for any make, model, year, or application you need.
chimpanzee said:Burdizzo said:TxSquarebody said:
I learned a few tricks from an old man that could really build a quadrajet. I do ok with one, but nothing like some of the wizards. Unfortunately, most of that knowledge is dying.
There used to be a legendary guy Cliff who had a whole business dedicated to Q-Jets. He even did road shows where he would put on clinics and tune people's carbs. He has pretty much shut down, but there is a guy in Waring, TX near Comfort who has pretty much anything you need for a QJet. I think he has a warehouse full of variants for any make, model, year, or application you need.
Cliff Ruggles right? He was really helpful, had a library of long very complete write-ups that he would email to anyone that asked. If you read any of them, you realized why everyone hated Q-jets. If you knew what you were doing, had an infinite supply of metering rods (some of which no one makes any more), could measure vacuum under load and had the time to pull and disassemble/reassemble the carb and distributor between multiple rounds of tests and timing adjustments, you could get a Q-jet to run really well for a little while before having to do it again. Basically, for less effort than what was required to do that correctly once and maybe an extra $500, you could have an EFI system that does it better continuously and automatically forever.
Sean Murphy (SMI Carbs, or somesuch) is still doing work, I think. I have one of his 800 cfm Q-jets on the 428 in my Trans Am, and it does fine after it clears it's throat, bogs, pops and then starts dumping the fuel. Cold idle isn't really a thing either. I ended up going that route myself through a rather unlucky sequence of uncovering automotive *******y inflicted on my car by the prior owner. If I keep it and get back to working on it, I'll go with a Holley Sniper unit, or convert the damned thing to an electric motor based on my timeline.