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- From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
- Subject: Re: Carter Quadrajet?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.223222.22482@i88.isc.com>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:32:22 GMT
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- In article <ALC.93Jan11144515@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM> alc@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Al Chang) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan10.170740.5731@nosc.mil> koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan09.033725.5851@eng.umd.edu> floyd@eng.umd.edu (Greg Butler) writes:
- >
- > >Is that a typo? Everyone knows Quadrajets are (were) made by
- > >Rochester, right? That's what I thought until I picked one up
- > >the other day that had written on the side:
- >
- > > "MFD BY
- > > CARTER
- > > CARBURETOR
- >
- > yep, I've seen 'em, I know someone that's got on on a '72 Pontiac Bonneville
- > with 455cid... yep, you *are* gonna have fun convincing parts-store counter-hlp
- > that you're not halucinating... but don't give up, the correct parts are
- > available, you just gotta look for 'em.
- >
- >
- >Are you sure its not a thermalquad(sp?)?? I think Carter made the
- >thermalquad in the 60's and 70's. I think my Chryslers with 440's and
- >383's had them.
-
- Nope, I've got a carter q-jet in my '68 Bonneville...
- apparently made under license. To get the correct parts for
- yours you probably should get the model number (on mine, VERY hard
- to find/read, on the side of the carb); that should be in the
- parts dude's quadrajet book....
-
- and yes, the last guy I bought a rebuild kit from told me I was crazy too
-
- --Ken
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