Re: [Chevelle-List] RE: carbs.

[Danny Wilsher]

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I wasn't going to comment on this one, but after Steve said what he did I had to smile and defend the old "quadrajunks". Back in the old days when they came out and everyone threw them away like the comments on here have said, I thought there had to be some way to make these things work. I found  a book and I couldn't tell you wrote it, but he was a pretty sharp guy in my opinion. I read and reread that thing so many times I had it memorized. I would rebuild a carb like the guy said and it would amaze me that it would run so good. I had many satisfied customers and I even used to run them at the strip and guys would tell me that I could go faster if I put their holleys on my big block Chevy. Several times I changed out to a friends holley, (had to use a aluminum spacer plate to make it fit) and it always slowed  my old '67 396/375 hp BBC down. I was running an old Ofenhouser spread bore 360 degree aluminum dual plane intake and it was, in my opinion, really awesome. I know today's technology is far superior, but I loved them old spreadbores!!!!!!!!!!  lol....  ����� ..............  ----- Original Message ----- From: Chevelle 69 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:52 PM Subject: [Chevelle-List] RE: carbs. Gents,            I am far from a mechanic, but I am sold on Quadrajets. The guys that say when you get a good one, it's great, are right. I must have got a good one!    When I was a teen I had a GTO with a 389 and a 4 speed. It came with a Quadrajet. This wasn't a low performance Quadrajet mind you. It was what was known as a "spread-bore". Meaning it had tiny primaries that you used for every day street driving (around the size of a quarter), but those secondaries were about the size of a silver dollar (give or take a bit).   When I pushed that peddle to the metal, those secondaries opened and the front end jumped in the air, and the kick was such that it seemed like I had downshifted when I hadn't. The sound that engine made when it went into performance mode was like sweet music to my ears. Especially if you turned the air breather upside down to expose the air filter. Anyone do that?   I rebuilt that carb myself later, not knowing what the heck I was doing. I just bought a rebuild kit and followed the instructions in the kit. It performed just as great afterwards as it ever had. I tried putting a Holley on the car once just to see what all the hoopla was about. I put the Quadrajet back on and never thought twice about going back to the Holley.   I have two spread-bore quadrajets I will be rebuilding to put on my big block. That's what I'll be using gents. If anyone wants to throw their spread-bore Quadrajets away, I'll take them!                                                                                      Steve