[Half-Inch Stud]

Ahem,

Fine research OPH.

Years of scrounging USED Q-Jets in the early 80s leads me to believe my recognition of Q-Jet authenticity. Having owned the rare 68-73 Q-Jets (69Sprint, 428HO, Ram IV auto, 4spd, and 73 SD455 manual)...as well as the plain-vanilla standard GTO Q-Jet.

Upon deciding to sell my rather pristine 73 SD Q-Jet to Barry Martin >10years ago. I recorded all the cast numbers and features...and decided to build my own personal performance Q-Jets from darn good common scratch.

Well, my favorite Centerbodies are the $5 Chevy 7029200 carbs. They get surrounded by 70 Poncho Bigcar baseplates and TopPlates. Top performer Q-Jet stuff...and makes the Dual Quad fit possible.

I particularly like the Hand's advice to "make your own Secondary Air Valve slots in an unslotted airplate, to improve the sharpness of the Secondary response compared to the stock slotted topPlates"...of course ya gotta open-up the Secondary Accellerator pump holes to gain the bigger shot. Practicality works for me.

OPH, I respect your efforts. My problem with the numbers game is I hate to attach value anymore to the rhyme in numbers...they are just numbers to me...except I'm still playing favorites with head numbers.

Certainly, many others out there attach value and importance to stampings, numbers and codes.

H.I.S.

YK block, N 455crank, J-series SDRods, 48heads, 7029268carb, BE secondaryrods on J-hanger, PC TH400, 121 frontpump, AH valvebody, ZD 12Bolt, JC rims, NOR plant carbody.

Yet, the car is so unoriginal, so non-stock that I like it.

"11.00/123MPH/1.50 60foot/29.5"/4.10:1/10"/472 #48/Flat HYD/DualQuad/Wenzler/3250Lbs
12.00/112MPH/1.61 60foot/26"/3.31:1/10"/472 #48/FlatHYD/Q-Jet/Torker/3650Lbs"