I read a thread a while ago that mentioned a fellow who does quadrajet overhauls out of his home (mid-west?) for about $100 and test runs them before returning...

Does anyone know his contact info?

 

Thanks, Bill

 

Check out this link to Ken's paper on rebuilding a Qjet. Once you are in the Vette projects page, click on Ken's project:
http://www.vetteprojects.com/

There is some great info in this piece.
Good Luck,
Scott

Bill,

I've built many a Qjet in my day and it's my opinion that if a guy did the whole job for $100 he'd be working awful cheap.  That would probably just cover the labor.  The biggest problem you run into with Qjets is people have a tendency to overtighten the two front bolts and warp the top and the float bowl.  It's not a terribly hard job if you are mechanically inclined but if your carb is very crusty it would be best to have a bucket of carb dip.  There seems to be plenty of good advice on this site if you decide to dig in yourself.

Good luck,

   Rich

 

Clickable link for above article

Bill,

Good luck getting much for $100. I had www.thequadshop.net do mine about 18 months ago, over $300, but it looks and runs great. He lives in Rockford, Ill.

Matt   

Bill,

Me thinks the concensus on this is if you want it done for $100 bucks, you'd better read up and do it yourself.  Or, do what I did...get rid of the QJet and throw a Holley or Edelbrock on there.  Couple of members are running Demon carbs on their cars too.  Course, I'm not worried about keeping it stock.  I'm going to be keeping it long enough to let the prices get up around where the C2's are now before I sell!  Course, by then I'll have about that much invested anyway!

I suspect your thinking of Lars ______.  Can't remember the last name.  I have heard so many people mention him as THE quadrajet guy it's ridiculous, including many guys saying he had the car running smoother and more powerfully than it EVER did, including new.  If you search for "lars" on this site or the corvetteforum.com, I'm sure you'll find him.  However, as many have already said, I don't think he's going to touch it for $100...

Jim McGowan at The Quad Shop in Rockford built mine, slow as molasses (8 + weeks), but a great job. It was just right out of the box. He not only builds them, but drives them to Chicago to flow bench test them. Tell him the application and it is built to order. Mine has the throttle response of an EFI mill.

Around $100.00...... in your wildest dreams. I think it cost me a little north of $350.00 but it was money well spent.

I'd gladly swap my shiny Holley 650 for your ugly Q-Jet.... IMHO, the Q-Jet is the best sreet carb ever...

Dave