What carb / intake would you use on this?
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What carb / intake would you use on this?
73 Camaro. 350 automatic. Bone stock. Currently Rochester 2bbl. Carb has non camaro carb with fuel inlet that interferes with stock air cleaner.
This is my daughter's car, so I want maximum fuel economy.
Was thinking about going with a stock Q-jet intake and carb.
What intake would you recommend?
Will a 14057053 fit under the hood?
I want to keep EGR and stock air (4bbl) cleaner for fuel economy.
Motor needs to be rebuilt, so I can change other stuff too if needed, like vortec heads - maybe?
This is my daughter's car, so I want maximum fuel economy.
Was thinking about going with a stock Q-jet intake and carb.
What intake would you recommend?
Will a 14057053 fit under the hood?
I want to keep EGR and stock air (4bbl) cleaner for fuel economy.
Motor needs to be rebuilt, so I can change other stuff too if needed, like vortec heads - maybe?
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Re: What carb / intake would you use on this?
73 Camaro. 350 automatic. Bone stock. Currently Rochester 2bbl. Carb has non camaro carb with fuel inlet that interferes with stock air cleaner.
This is my daughter's car, so I want maximum fuel economy.
Was thinking about going with a stock Q-jet intake and carb.
What intake would you recommend?
Will a 14057053 fit under the hood?
I want to keep EGR and stock air (4bbl) cleaner for fuel economy.
Motor needs to be rebuilt, so I can change other stuff too if needed, like vortec heads - maybe?
This is my daughter's car, so I want maximum fuel economy.
Was thinking about going with a stock Q-jet intake and carb.
What intake would you recommend?
Will a 14057053 fit under the hood?
I want to keep EGR and stock air (4bbl) cleaner for fuel economy.
Motor needs to be rebuilt, so I can change other stuff too if needed, like vortec heads - maybe?
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RE: Vortec, that's a good point, I will keep that in mind.
The Edelbrock performer is a good, solid choice. Do you think I would get better mileage with a factory Q-jet intake?
Does anyone know the factory casting number for a 73 Q-Jet intake on a Camaro?
The Edelbrock performer is a good, solid choice. Do you think I would get better mileage with a factory Q-jet intake?
Does anyone know the factory casting number for a 73 Q-Jet intake on a Camaro?
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Re: What carb / intake would you use on this?
The Performer is more or less a factory replacement for small blocks. I imagine the two would be similar given closely matched setups.
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The Performer won't get any better mileage than the factory intake.
The 3rd gen q-jet intakes were aluminum, for what that's worth (except the LG4's in Canada, where they were still cast iron). I've got a couple of them laying around if you're interested in a cheap alternative to a Performer. They have the EGR boss, but that's easy enough to block off. However, they don't have the hot air choke mount, if your q-jet has that type of choke (easy enough to convert to electric).
The 3rd gen q-jet intakes were aluminum, for what that's worth (except the LG4's in Canada, where they were still cast iron). I've got a couple of them laying around if you're interested in a cheap alternative to a Performer. They have the EGR boss, but that's easy enough to block off. However, they don't have the hot air choke mount, if your q-jet has that type of choke (easy enough to convert to electric).
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