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Bextreme04 replied to the thread Rochester Quadrajet Woes.Its not "air" that you need. It's "compression". Yes.. you do need air, but if it is being allowed to come in to the engine at the wrong... -
Bextreme04 replied to the thread Rochester Quadrajet Woes.Its not that you NEED the fiber floats. What he is saying is that they react differently and if you don't know what you are doing it...
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" then" not than. Spell check police are going to get you.Did you go to school?
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Bextreme04 reacted to gmbellew's post in the thread What have you done to your square lately?? with
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it is so dark inside the cab of these old rigs, and I could never see the cupholders on the center console of the suburban. One good... -
Bextreme04 replied to the thread Rochester Quadrajet Woes.To mimic the OEM electric choke trucks, it is recommended to wire that through an oil pressure switch. This will only provide power to...
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Bextreme04 replied to the thread Rochester Quadrajet Woes.The electric choke conversion for your Q-jet just replaces the thermostat bolted to the manifold with an electric one. You don't...
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Bextreme04 replied to the thread Fuel problems.It sounds like you have the return lines swapped on the valve or the valve is not switching properly. Make sure that the feed and return...
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Take a close look at the throttle linkage side of the carb and get the Quadrajet number. This tells you which carb you have (original...
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Bextreme04 replied to the thread Rochester Quadrajet Woes.This is a pretty good description of what should be happening, but I'll add a few caveats. Early quadrajets like this one only had one...
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Bextreme04 replied to the thread Big block running hot. Can’t figure out the issue.oof... bummer. Glad you checked it though. If you had it dialed in near sea level and are now in Denver, I would start by dropping 2 jet...
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Bextreme04 replied to the thread 4.8/5.3 to 383.You aren't going to get 383 actual displacement from an LS unless you start with an actual LS1. The math just doesn't work out for any...
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Bextreme04 replied to the thread Big block running hot. Can’t figure out the issue.Not necessarily. 14.7:1 is stoich for pure gasoline. Pure ethanol is 9.003:1. Almost all gasoline sold in the US is now E10(roughly 10%...
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Bextreme04 reacted to nvrenuf's post in the thread Big block running hot. Can’t figure out the issue with Like.
@Bextreme04 that’s excellent big block trivia! I looked at my old pics and I do have those “extra” holes, in fact mine appear to be...
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Bextreme04 reacted to Slooptin's post in the thread Big block running hot. Can’t figure out the issue with Sad.
Dang that’s good to know. No pics unfortunately so it looks like I’ll be removing heads after all. Might as well at this point if I’m unsure
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Bextreme04 replied to the thread Big block running hot. Can’t figure out the issue.This is a serial flow block. Notice the lack of coolant holes on the exhaust side of the block surface below the head bolts in between...
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