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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Engine/Drivetrain => Topic started by: dieselman123 on June 11, 2014, 10:28:08 am

Title: carb question
Post by: dieselman123 on June 11, 2014, 10:28:08 am
Is it possible to mount a qjet on a squarebore vortec intake. If so any ideas??? I read that there are adapters but not sure do they perform well.I want to keep my qjet so I want have to buy a new carb. Plus I love the qjet and the perfomance. Any advice would help. Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: carb question
Post by: DnStClr on June 11, 2014, 02:01:15 pm
From what I've seen the best way to go is to use an Edelbrock 2116 intake.  No adapters needed.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/edl-2116?seid=srese1&gclid=CNKovsvA8r4CFclr7AodiBkARA
Title: Re: carb question
Post by: DustyRusty on June 11, 2014, 02:06:33 pm
I looked in the Summit Racing catalog but found nothing like you want.  They have many different carb spacers and adapters including square-bore to spread-bore but not spread-bore to square-bore.  Don't know if you could merely flip it over and make it work.

Something interesting to me was that Summit carries wood-fiber laminate spacers.  I think it would be an interesting challenge to make your own adapter out of wood laminate.  Maybe others have knowledge or experience about this.
Title: Re: carb question
Post by: dieselman123 on June 12, 2014, 08:21:44 am
When you say summit racing catalog is it online or the one they sent to your house.and yes that would be a good challenging task to do.
Title: Re: carb question
Post by: DustyRusty on June 12, 2014, 05:46:31 pm
I actually have the hardcopy catalog but I don't think it has all of Summit's inventory.  Here is the link to Summit's site:  www.summitracing.com/  Type in 'carb spacers' and 'carb adapters' in the search function.

However, I think I found what you want when I searched the Summit site:  2 adapters made by Edelbrock.  The Summit No. is Edl-2692 @ $32.97, and Edl-2693 made of aluminum @ $39.97.  Both are spread-bore carb to square-bore manifold adapters.

Summit's toll free number is 1-800-230-3030. 

Hope this helps.  If you get one let us know how it works.

Rusty