In many ways you kids have it so much easier these days. If we wanted a tune we had to find someone with a Sun machine that knew how to recurve a distributor, then find a guy who could recalibrate a Quadrajet (or a big Holley). We'd do our own headers. For the street it was hard to beat most of the GM factory cams.
The M-21 and 22 did okay behind the last big block I had in the Chevelle, but they had their moments. Of course this was the late 80s and I was poor as dirt. Used to snag transmissions from the junkyard and tear them apart and keep the good hard parts in a tool box in the trunk.
It wonât hurt your fuel pump
They need to record the sound of the secondaries on a properly tuned QJet opening up and pipe that in to the cabin. I loved the QJet. It was a pain to learn to tune and fix the few common issues it had - but it was no contest when compared to anything else back then (carb wise) for power, off idle characteristics and drive-ability.
You, ctanddc and Lxmike are both exactly right. It sounded like it was trying to suck the carâs hood right through the secondaries. The only thing I ever owned that sounded any better were Tri-Power Goats. Yes, todayâs cars are much faster but those old cars had a certain brutality about them that canât be explained if you didnât experience it.
