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I saw that book when I was at Amazon looking up Roe's book. Bought them both. I'm glad to hear that his book is as good as it looked. Any ideas about buying internal parts for the Q-jet? Like if I need needles, or other parts? I've been buying cores for $5 - $10 so I'll have a parts inventory as I get this rig running like it should. Thanks for the follow up Steve

I am, as usual, much obliged - Steve

I purchased a quadrajet carb for my 66 442 and although it is pretty beat up I managed to salvage it. Unfortunately it came with two different needles in the secondaries. One has the letters "AU" stamped in it and the other "BE". Would anyone know which is correct for this carb? My second question relative to this would be: How would I be able to change needles for more or less fuel with a higher lift or longer duration cammed motor? Is there a book out there on modifying the carb for higher performance? Thanks for all your expertise here. Steve

Yes - I saw that. $150 is his minimum. So I went to the local wrecking yard. The old boy who has ran if for the last 50 years is tired of it and has turned it over to the local hot rodders to clean up some of it. I went through a van full of flywheels and found one. $20.00. Made my day.

Joe, Thanks. I'm off to an old wrecking yard today to sort through hundreds of old flywheels in search of a flywheel for my 66. I had toyed with the idea of using a later flywheel and simply remachining the bolt holes to fit my 400. They are not off by very much I've found. But I am unsure of how they balanced the flywheels. The cranks, at least in my experience, area all balanced at the factory. So if I reset the holes and static balanced the wheel it should work fine. I think I'd also use a fluid filled harmonic balancer on the motor to ensure a vibration free motor. If I do find one of each I may go ahead and try the idea out. If it works it would be the salvation of many of us with the older rigs. Not to mention the savings over Joe Mondello's $400 flywheels. Not that his aren't worth it - just really spendy when you are on a fixed income and working like we did in the 60s and 70s on these automobiles. Thanks again. BTW - Mondello's tech line will FAX anyone a copy of the bolt flange differences with schematic included. Steve

Like oldsmaniac said - there is about 2 degrees of difference between the solder rods and the pot metal. I use silver solder and silver solder flux. I destroyed about 4 experimental items before I got the hang of it. I was welding a pot metal concho to a silver bit for a bridle. Steve

I have been told there is a difference in the 400 ci motors. But I can not figure out what it is. Anyone here know? It's for a manual tranny - Thanks, Steve