Carb Tech

[Rex]

I finally got my carb running right after i rebuilt it. Here's an important tip, always replace EVERY SINGLE gasket and o-ring. My truck was running horribly because i didn't replace a couple of little o-rings that went on a metal tube passageway for the accelerator pump and it was right above the powervalve. Well those o-rings weren't sealing good and it was putting a lot of extra fuel in the powervalve and it caused a HUGE gas cloud behind me and a very rough idle with raw fuel coming out. So learn from my mistake and if anyone needs help rebuilding a holley, i have a lot of experience at taking one apart now.

[BMFScout]

**** holley, q-jet is the way to go, unless of course you have the bux to pony up for a fi setup, c'mon may...

[J Cooper]

come help me re-build my holley 2 barr. untill i get my holley truck avenger.... **** G-JET

[Jackasic]

yea, **** Q-jet real men drive Holleys. BTW, they are much easyer to rebuild that a Q-jet.

I'm waiting on the new Barry Grant Off Road Deamon. that thing is going to rock.

[AgDieseler]

All I have to say is Holley 750 Demon.

[robertf03]

yeah maybe if your building a car

i dont see how you can beat a quadrajet without going to fuel injection. And I think most of those companies building "off road" carbs are building them to take bumps, not run at a 60* incline.

q-jets are everywhere. I went to pick and pull looking for a motorcraft 2100 carb, they were all taken, but just about every chevy still has the qjet under the hood.

but I'll stick with my 2barrel mc2100 on the Jeep and Truck for now until I get around to TBI.

[Rex]

My truck is just a tow rig, so the holley works fine, but for offroad, zenith carb all the way

[fbronco86]

yeah until your carb stalls out on a hill and then your truck slams into a tree. thats always fun. like mine did. thats when the mustang fuel injection comes into play more low end power and never stalls out on hills. but its a little more than a carb set up

[J Cooper]

i was gonna run the mustang set up on my 304. but doesnt AMC use chrysler manifolds?... ive heard the holley truck avenger out performers q-jets on inclines but maybe im wrong? any other suggestions, ill be changing out alot of stuff soon, but on a budget

[robertf03]

AMC != chrysler

its completely different. i'd leave the stock 2 barrel on there or go efi

[J Cooper]

i ment isnt AMC a mutt company.... i thought for the 304 they used a ford 302 block and chevy 305 heads and a chrysler manifold, then it has a dodge tf transmition. its not like they dont sell amc manifolds i just ment for a direct swap off a mustang wouldnt bolt up to my 5.0

[robertf03]

amc is amc. They made their own engines, but why reinvent the wheel with their own transmission, alternator, power steering pump, carb, etc. A smart move on their part. Since the stuff is more standardized. besides, back in the 60's-late 70s car parts were very interchangable. I have a replacement coil for my chevy 2 still in the box. On the back of the box it lists all the cars it fits. Guess what, chevy and ford use the same coil, along with just about every domestic and some import makes for that time period. So is a ford 302 a GM product since it can use a GM coil?

Ford also used saginaw steering pumps in there E150 vans. I think the only chrysler product AMC ever used is the TF transmission. other than that its all delco and motorcraft accessories

lots of other car companies did the same thing. IH is probably the 2nd most notorious after AMC, but they arent the only ones.

[J Cooper]

i know all that... i use to have a motorcraft carb on it before. I know all about how old cars used all the same ****. ive had my share of classic cars. i know about all the interchangable stuff, the jeep has all motorcraft ingnition too. What ive always heard from mechanics and such is that AMC actually used ford and chevy engine parts "so that they wouldnt have to re-invent the wheel" - I really dont care what they used, its not a big deal if it runs good, just asking if the statement was true. I always thought AMC just had there own 5.0, but its just what others have told me.

[robertf03]

i hear ya, most mechanics are idiots and I've heard the same thing

oh, and its a 304, not a 5.0 **** the metric system

[J Cooper]

amen my brotha