69 carb question
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Burning Brakes
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69 carb question
What are the chances that a 7029214 carb (427 auto) ended up on my 427 manual car?
My cars build date is L24. The 29214 carb is dated 1699. seems like the appropriate julian date for the car.
The vast majority of parts on the car have never been removed.
Any thoughts? I assumed off the bat that it was wrong for the car, but who knows...
Gary
My cars build date is L24. The 29214 carb is dated 1699. seems like the appropriate julian date for the car.
The vast majority of parts on the car have never been removed.
Any thoughts? I assumed off the bat that it was wrong for the car, but who knows...
Gary
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There was an owner here asking a similar question about a year ago, except he was trying to push acceptance in NCRS Flight Judging as his focus.
My books show a 9204 being used on auto trans cars, not a 9214 but it is known that the 9214 was used on 396 trucks and possibly Camaros of the same time period. If it's true that 9214s were not used on Corvettes, how did one end up at the St. Louis plant?
If they were used on Corvettes (meaning my books are wrong) usually the big difference between a manual carb and auto carb is linkage for the kickdown mechanism.
If that's not an issue, then somebody may have just grabbed the wrong piece in the engine dressing area and it slipped through the system. Hard to prove one way or the other.
My books show a 9204 being used on auto trans cars, not a 9214 but it is known that the 9214 was used on 396 trucks and possibly Camaros of the same time period. If it's true that 9214s were not used on Corvettes, how did one end up at the St. Louis plant?
If they were used on Corvettes (meaning my books are wrong) usually the big difference between a manual carb and auto carb is linkage for the kickdown mechanism.
If that's not an issue, then somebody may have just grabbed the wrong piece in the engine dressing area and it slipped through the system. Hard to prove one way or the other.
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Burning Brakes
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That was the answer I was looking for...
I took a better look at the carb sheet and you are totally right...I thought that 9214 was for 427 corvette, but its actually 9204.
Gary
I took a better look at the carb sheet and you are totally right...I thought that 9214 was for 427 corvette, but its actually 9204.
Gary
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