Carb and Intake worth working on?
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Carb and Intake worth working on?
Hi everyone, getting back to the car after 18 months of other honey-do projects around the house.
Car is covered outside until spring, but doing workbench stuff in the garage to get back in the mood. Getting steering column back together now and looking at carb rebuild next. Car has sat unstarted for 10 years or more, but was parked running. Never heard it at that time and but know that things are piecemealed together, so here is what I'm looking at:
Car is '69 BBC, stamp CE9 8642, so going with the assumption for now that he made it a 427
Intake is 340218, so mid 70's 454 passenger car from what I can pull off google?
Q-Jet 7044502 BM, so '74 California standards, auto trans build?
The car has a 4-speed, and fixed crossmember, which I think means it was shipped as a manual.
Is this intake/carb combo something that could be used for the time being, knowing that I'm going to have to sink a rebuild kit and time into it after sitting for a decade? I can easily drive to Carlisle this summer for other options if this combo is totally off base, but have other places that money could fix up first. Just concerned over the auto vs manual conflict and what impact the California standards had on the carb.
Thanks...Angelo
Car is covered outside until spring, but doing workbench stuff in the garage to get back in the mood. Getting steering column back together now and looking at carb rebuild next. Car has sat unstarted for 10 years or more, but was parked running. Never heard it at that time and but know that things are piecemealed together, so here is what I'm looking at:
Car is '69 BBC, stamp CE9 8642, so going with the assumption for now that he made it a 427
Intake is 340218, so mid 70's 454 passenger car from what I can pull off google?
Q-Jet 7044502 BM, so '74 California standards, auto trans build?
The car has a 4-speed, and fixed crossmember, which I think means it was shipped as a manual.
Is this intake/carb combo something that could be used for the time being, knowing that I'm going to have to sink a rebuild kit and time into it after sitting for a decade? I can easily drive to Carlisle this summer for other options if this combo is totally off base, but have other places that money could fix up first. Just concerned over the auto vs manual conflict and what impact the California standards had on the carb.
Thanks...Angelo
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Joined: Jan 2007
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Thanks for the info, what is your source? I had Ruggles' Qjet rebuild book to get the info I posted and since found a Lars thread http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...ad.php?t=88376 that adds "CHEV 74 CHEVELLE 350 A/T CA & TRUCK ".
I have not found the intake listed anywhere as a corvette casting, though there are a couple forums posts around that do reference it used on a vette, I'll again assume that it is a serviceable option.
Based on your comment, I went ahead shot a message on into the Ruggles website to see what type of kit they would recommend.
I have not found the intake listed anywhere as a corvette casting, though there are a couple forums posts around that do reference it used on a vette, I'll again assume that it is a serviceable option.
Based on your comment, I went ahead shot a message on into the Ruggles website to see what type of kit they would recommend.
