First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Hijacking this thread. I have the block off plates inserted in my car. I recently drove it to fill it up with gas and put stabil into it in preperation for winter hibernation. The car would barely run, it wouldn't idle and missed occasionally while running. It runs fine in warm weather.. I was worried something had gone wrong with the car, but can I attribute this to the exhaust crossover blocked off. This is after the car is warm. When it is cold it doesn't run very well because I pull the electric choke off to fast.
----- Original Message ---- From: Hugo Tafel <[email protected]> To: First Generation Firebird-L <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 1:15:03 PM Subject: Re: [FGF] Q-jet choke with Edelbrock intake? First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List .......................................................................... I would convert to elecric choke AND block off the crossover in the intake (some gasket kits include the blockoff plates) unless you plan on driving the car when it's really really cold. Why go to so much work to get nice cool air into the carb and then stick a stove underneath to heat it up?? Hugo --- On Thu, 12/17/09, Ridell, Niklas (C.N..) <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ridell, Niklas (C.N.) <[email protected]> Subject: [FGF] Q-jet choke with Edelbrock intake? To: "First Generation Firebird-L" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 11:57 AM First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List .......................................................................... Hi guys, Asking for your experience here. I'm bolting my stock Quadrajet to a performer intake and wonder how to solve the choke. The intake seem to be made for a later style choke where the heat spring protrudes into the exhaust cross-over while the stock '68 choke is just depressed in a pocket. There's a block off plate that comes with the intake. It has a small screw hole where the old style choke can be attached so I guess it's also an adapter. But it leaves half the heat spring in the air so I'm a bit concerned the heat transfer wont be sufficient. What do you say, will it be good enough or should I ditch the heat spring thingy and convert my carb to electric choke? /Niklas .. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird..org/show/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/>
