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I did a test on a friends Avanti- 305" w/ Qjet. Hard start after sitting cold for a couple of days. OEM original pump. I can't remember how many GPM it produced, but I do remember somewhere about 1-3/4 or 2 psi. N/G replacement necessary. Think about this, All the other carbs I mentioned have larger float chambers that Q'Jet, so it takes less time to fill and is ready to go before the others. BTW don't ever let anyone talk you out of a Q-jet. It's one of the best carburetors ever made, and for many reasons. I just wished they invented them earlier. Great performance, variable engine displacement ability carb, excellent high mileage carburetor with high velocity primaries, and a super carb. for road racing due to its anti-sloshing capabilities of its float in high G load side load turns. I've never had one nose over on me in a critical moment on the track like you would on other carburetors.

If a Q jet, 4GC, ABF, or even a monojet sit for more than a couple of days the float bowl will be dry. So, three cars of mine have one, a Q jet, two, a mono jet and three, a 4GC. They all seem to take about as much time to fill with fuel as it takes their oil pumps to pump pressure to 40 PSI and at that time all engines will sputter. This happens in about 8-10 seconds of cranking and in that cranking time you never touch the throttle (unless you would like to wear out the accelerator pump). Now that the engines are OIL PRIMED and FUEL PRIMED- two squirts on the accelerator and they fire right up. The only other car that I have with a carburetor that can pull up fuel faster is one of my VW beetles because it has a manual choke, when you pull that choke closed the engine vacuum while cranking helps the pump along by negative pressure. If you are having hard starting cold because of lack of fuel to the carb the first thing to do is check not only the fuel pressure but how many gallons per minute it is pumping. As pumps age they don't pump as well so check that first. Choke closed? Original poster didn't say if this car is A/C equipped. Many GM cars are equipped with a fuel return line which helps the vapor lock problems. It recirculates cool fuel from the tank to the carburetor. If you don't have one buy yourself a GM AC filter that has the return built in and all you need to do is run a line back to the tank. If your car is a AACA show car I don't know if they would deduct points, but if it means being stuck or pulled over on the side of the road with the hood up instead of being at the cruise night you're supposed to be at......well! Adding an electric fuel pump is a Band-Aid fix masking the real problem. BTW, I have known many guys still on the side of the road mind you that have an electric fuel pump and still have vapor lock because they don't have that return line. Seems always a hot late afternoon/early evening at a real cruise night where the cars are in parade mode driving around the town square bumper to bumper, they drop off one by one.

I would be hesitant to put some kind of blanket for fear of blocking proper crankcase ventilation.

Meaning it has hydraulic lifters for silent running.

Can you explain how a 1951 series 40 straight eight with solid lifters adjusted at road temp @ .015 would be just as quiet as a series 70 with Zero lash hydraulics??? When I look up in my college auto 1 shop book it says; The hydraulic lifter was designed to compensate for this small tolerance-lash, allowing the valve train to operate with zero clearance—leading to quieter operation, longer engine life, and eliminating the need for periodic adjustment of valve clearance.

All I'm saying is when you hear or read this, the effort is over, has nowt to do with me. "As long as I run this forum for the AACA, I'm not going to let this forum go down that path."

Why don't we close this thread because it's not going to go anywhere.

I wouldn't do that.

What I should have done was reject the car outright, but I was desperate having to wait twelve weeks, and it was a special-order car. It has an interior a brougham wasn't supposed to get, a transmission it wasn't supposed to get plus other options. Ironically, I worked for another manufacturer, a manufacturer who would have never let it past the factory, if it managed to leave the factory (which it wouldn't have) it would have never made it past distribution services. Not a pleasant experience, plus the dealer didn't want to fix it and even said "what do you want a Rolls Royce?" A visit to the zone office where I ordered it originally produced results. The dealer fixed it. Poor fit and finish on one side but on the other hand, the car has been the most trouble free I've ever owned. How many vehicles do you know that still have original rear brakes, fuel pump, alternator, P/S pump, steering, ball joints, links, and an engine, trans, rear end and a carburetor that have never been apart at now close to 120,000 miles and 47 years old. And no rust.

I have a 1976 Oldsmobile that I'm the original owner of. When I began showing the car at Oldsmobile Club of America in its preservation class I was met with some opposition. The reason was because the hood and the two front doors were painted in the selling dealers body shop. So, the Oldsmobile club people told me it wasn't original paint. The problem was this car I special ordered and when it finally arrived at the dealer, I wouldn't take delivery because the two front doors had dents in them, and the hood had sand and bubbles in the paint in the two valleys down the sides. Back to the Olds club and up the chain of command who was in charge of shows or classes (can't really remember who) I was able to have OCA accept that because I had not taken delivery of the vehicle and that the dealer was acting as an emissary on behalf of the factory. The only thing I was required to do was carry a letter that I got from the head judge every time I entered an OCA show. I still have that letter.

Here are some others

Pre 65 because of the vent wings, rear quarter glass windows or saying the rear body is 58-64

The 61 Tempest was influenced by the 59 Pontiac

When I saw the picture, I thought you possibly belonged to PAAC, and they had some kind of cruise or drive.

What 4th of July drive????

I consider these cars the cats Wiskers. Anywhere from about 1938-41.

Forgot to mention about interior of 46 Beetle. There was such a shortage of material in Germany after the war the Brits and German workers got a hold of the only glue to be found for installing the headliner. It was fish glue. When it rained and there was high humidity the cars stank of fish.

Black 40, Don't know, I used the picture as an example. Some guys, really old school don't use a leash, I do. One of my best friends does not believe in leashes, my dad who started surfing in 1927 didn't believe in leashes either, or as a matter of fact didn't believe in wetsuits! I remember back in the fall of 1966 (I had already been surfing over ten years!) I got my first wetsuit; we went surfing one day and my dad hadn't seen it in the car. I started putting it on and he comes over to me and says, "MEN DON"T WEAR WETSUITS!" So, getting back to the leash. We wrap the cord of the leash around the fin and use the velcro ankle strap to tie it off around the fin. We put the board backwards, so the air pressure doesn't pull the wrapped around chord off the fin (which will happen). Now you've got an eight-foot leash dangling in front of the driver behind you on the FWY-70-80 mph.

Question, how old is that surfboard? Looks pretty new. I guess someone bought the rights to Dewey's name. Heck, I went to his memorial thirty years ago. And just a reminder if you do put racks on the wagon, put the surfboard on the right way. <wrong ---- right> Most guys I know who have a woody and do surf usually put them inside with the tail hanging out either up or down, usually fin up so the wax doesn't melt.

Hey EmTee. Don't laugh, but I think the Clampetts 1921 Oldsmobile was in the Ralph Foster Museum at one time. Anything can happen.

Maybe these things will be in the museum some day.

What makes the LeSabre special and unique is its engine. The engine that was compromised for Buicks V-8 of 1953. The LeSabre cylinder head was compromised from a Hemi to a 1/2 Hemi for production cost. among other minor things.

This one is not what did, but what does an executive of smaller companies drive. RUF Automobile