Author Topic: C10 Carburetor  (Read 3518 times)

Offline rb43d

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C10 Carburetor
« on: June 12, 2009, 12:44:23 pm »
Hey Guy's,

I have an '85 Silverado C10 with a 305.  The carb is basically shot and I want to replace it. I'm looking for suggestions on what would be a good carb to replace the Rochester with and new carb part#'s and accessory kits for installation if needed would be a great help. Any pro's or con's to say Holley vs. Edelbrock?
Thanks in advance,

Boone

Offline ccz145a

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Re: C10 Carburetor
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2009, 12:47:04 pm »
What do you want to do with it?

For a daily driver, the q-jet is best. Nothing wrong with a properly tuned q-jet.
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Offline rb43d

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Re: C10 Carburetor
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2009, 12:52:23 pm »
I bought the truck a couple years ago from an elderly neighbor down the street, it only has 75K on it and is in awesome shape so I'm in the process of starting to sink some cash into it to trick it out just a bit, I want to stay with the "original look" side and not get too carried away. So I really only drive on weekends or to work occasionally but would like to get better performance out of the engine, I hear the 350's are better but nothing I can do about that!

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Re: C10 Carburetor
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2009, 06:09:10 pm »
Why not just rebuild your carb?
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Offline BigBadJohn

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Re: C10 Carburetor
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2009, 03:15:16 am »
^^^

I was looking at the kits for mine and theyre only $22 at autozone. Ill just have to try and not rip into it like the edelbrock carb I tried rebuilding a couple years ago  :-[