[70geeteeohh]

Originally Posted by Kenth

The carb in picture is a "regular" 1969-70 Pontiac Q-jet that is now destroyed/restamped with a stamped (NOT cast) number that not belongs to it.

And, imagine an ignorant byer sending in their original 7040273 M/T RamAir Quadrajet, worth thousands of dollars and receive this "frankencarb" in exchange, just to later realize the fraud!

Buyer beware!

FWIW

If a buyer is silly enough to not pay the $150 core charge and goes and sends their original 7040273 in for an exchange. Shame on that person for not doing research and believing a new carb costing 1/10th of the price wouldn't be legit.

I do not see any "FRAUD" as you call it being done by the business. It clearly states remanufactured and in no place says its original or 100% identical.

All emblems, mouldings, trim almost every car part that is remanufactured has the wrong style part # or incorrect radius bend, or a number of other inaccurate issues of an original.

I would hardly call them frauds. It's reproduction. It is what it is.

I was looking to get advice such as the following

"Decent reprouction carb, made of quality parts and ran well"

"Stay away, chinese made, not correct cfm for ram air carb and had many issues"

"Incorrect top pleate on carb doesn't look close to original etc"

By your words if any of our cars have repruction parts they are frauds and frankensteins.... or am I taking it wrong?

[Skidmark]

Maybe the Parts place could give you more info on what they are actually selling.

Since I've haven't personally rebuilt a QJ, I bought a couple decent 7042272's off eBay (my car is an auto) and sent them out to two different rebuilders. The price was comparable to the one you are referencing and I know what I have.

Since your not building an original car, I'd skip the expensive cores for more rare cars and get something that's close.

I bought an extra spare I plan to rebuild myself as well. I want to check that off my bucket list.

Good luck.

[70geeteeohh]

Originally Posted by Skidmark

Maybe the Parts place could give you more info on what they are actually selling.

Since I've haven't personally rebuilt a QJ, I bought a couple decent 7042272's off eBay (my car is an auto) and sent them out to two different rebuilders. The price was comparable to the one you are referencing and I know what I have.

Since your not building an original car, I'd skip the expensive cores for more rare cars and get something that's close.

I bought an extra spare I plan to rebuild myself as well. I want to check that off my bucket list.

Good luck.

You are 100% correct and I will definitely consider buying a different # original pontiac carb. Especially since my car won't be a matching # vehicle and I would rather an electric choke anyhow.

I want to find some more info out about this repro before I make a decision. If it's a quality carb I wouldnt mind giving it a chance.

[Kenth]

Originally Posted by 70geeteeohh

If a buyer is silly enough to not pay the $150 core charge and goes and sends their original 7040273 in for an exchange. Shame on that person for not doing research and believing a new carb costing 1/10th of the price wouldn't be legit.

I do not see any "FRAUD" as you call it being done by the business. It clearly states remanufactured and in no place says its original or 100% identical.

All emblems, mouldings, trim almost every car part that is remanufactured has the wrong style part # or incorrect radius bend, or a number of other inaccurate issues of an original.

I would hardly call them frauds. It's reproduction. It is what it is.

I was looking to get advice such as the following

"Decent reprouction carb, made of quality parts and ran well"

"Stay away, chinese made, not correct cfm for ram air carb and had many issues"

"Incorrect top pleate on carb doesn't look close to original etc"

By your words if any of our cars have repruction parts they are frauds and frankensteins.... or am I taking it wrong?

So it's not a NEW MANUFACTURED one we're talking about.
It is an original 1969-70 Pontiac Quadrajet that has had its application number ground off and then had a high-performance Ram Air number stamped on it instead.
This can hardly be compared to newly manufactured reproduction parts.
I have never understood why people destroy these carburetors as there are many who are looking for an original "regular" Quadrajet. And if you now KNOW that the carburetor does not correspond to the newly stamped number why would you even want it? There is more than a stamped number that separates a standard Qjet from a RamAir Qjet so why even bother cheating the number?

[70geeteeohh]

Originally Posted by Kenth

So it's not a NEW MANUFACTURED one we're talking about.
It is an original 1969-70 Pontiac Quadrajet that has had its application number ground off and then had a high-performance Ram Air number stamped on it instead.
This can hardly be compared to newly manufactured reproduction parts.
I have never understood why people destroy these carburetors as there are many who are looking for an original "regular" Quadrajet. And if you now KNOW that the carburetor does not correspond to the newly stamped number why would you even want it? There is more than a stamped number that separates a standard Qjet from a RamAir Qjet so why even bother cheating the number?

And what you wrote is 100% the problem for me. I do not know what separates the carbs from each other. I would think a 7040273 is a bigger cfm than a 7040263 and I'm sure there is more.

I don't even understand the difference between manual and automatic pontiac carbs besides the part #s.

I've always had bowties and holleys, demons, quickfuels etc. This is my first time ever with the quadrajet carbs.

I am just trying to get my ram air 4 engine to look somewhat original/nostalgic without the nasty pricetag.