I have an 81 with all the stock components, it runs great. I don't try to race anyone, Kia's and Hyundai's included. It's a street cruiser, not a track car. I don't sit anywhere with it with the hood up, pointing at this and that, I drive it.

Quadrajets are not junk, they work, and work well on cars and boat engines. My car is very nice the way it is and I constantly get told that by total strangers wherever I go. Driving it.

There is no constant diagnosing, turn the key and go.

If you don't / can't figure things out when they have issues and just replace it with new different stuff, well you are just a parts changer. Big difference in those people and true technicians / mechanics.

 

If you are happy toodling around in a make-believe sub performing "
super sports car", have at it.

Knock yourself out. Enjoy it. We call it all show and no go. Like a Camaro with a four cylinder. A kids car.

Remember though, the Corvette made it's bones as a performance oriented sports car that raced Porsche, Ferrari Jaguar and the like.

By the late 70's and through the early 80's they were mere shadows of there former selves.

In all fairness, this was due to a number of reasons. Including but not limited to, the bureaucrats in Washington, insurance companies and the like.

You don't have to race it or not drive it to enjoy it. I drive mine regularly.

I much prefer improving the performance rather than maintain mediocrity.

 

Plenty of 9, 10, and 11 second QuadraJets out there. There's a learning curve to work on them, sure, but they have a very broad tunability and lots of systems in place to make things work under significantly broader conditions than a Holley or Carter.

There is a limit to what they can do, but it's well beyond what 99% of people would consider reasonable for the street.

The E4ME does come with more things to learn and understand, not to mention you have less control over the primary side mixture than you would with an M4M.

 

The Q junk discussion again?

Surely you are kidding. I thought we put this to rest.

Q junk is junk. If you like it, have at it. Knock yourself out, literally, trying to make it decent.

It will never perform as good as a Holley. Never. Never has, never will. Q junk is on the junk pile of time, as it should be.

No one uses them anymore. For a reason. Especially the lousy smog junks.

Some people like to try and keep them running for nostalgia sake. Have at it.
There is always someone who leaps in to say how magnificent there's has been over the past 30 years. Have at it.

The majority have failed, and failed badly. One size fits all....doesn't. That was the q junk concept.

As far as performance? That is a totally laughable concept. Q junks win almost nothing.

In circle track racing the four barrel q junk is allowed to race against the 2 barrel Holley. Any 4 barrel Holley will smoke the q junk like a Swisher Sweet.

Don't take my word for it. Look it up in the regs.

Why do all the performance cars of the 60's and early 70's run Holley? Especially Corvette.

The famous ones all came from the factory with Holleys. All of them.

Again, take the time to look it up.

If someone wants to keep their "nostalgic", "collector?", smog car stock, have at it. Just be ready for lousy performance, learning to "understand" the Q junk, CCC, and ridiculous air pump.

Be fair to the OP. Don't delude him.