Quote Originally Posted by techinspector1 View Post
In my opinion, the Quadrajet is the finest fuel/air mixer on the planet, with the possible exception of some Webers and Dellortos. My best advice is to rebuild what you have, starting with this book by the Quadrajet guru, Cliff Ruggles.....
How to Rebuild & Modify Rochester Quadrajet Carburetors (S-a Design): Cliff Ruggles: 9781932494181: Amazon.com: Books

Also, refer to youtube. Go there and type in "Quadrajet" and you will be presented with quite a few rebuild videos, one that is, I believe, 7 videos long.
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Probably the best advice you're going to get and if you don't agree just go to the hotrodders website and ask there, they're full of experts and will tell you so.
If you don't want the hassle of changing the distributor out you can replace the points with a Petronix module and matching coil,theirs, and have good results, but stay away from anything that is stamped Accell, pure unadulterated junk.
I would keep the Q-jet, rebuild it per the book mentioned advice and add an electric choke as I did on my 76 Vette.