Electric Choke on a Q-Jet?

[Hogback Fabrication]

I lost my intake mounted choke (whatever style choke that is) when I went to vortec heads and intake. I am getting fed up with the manual choke setup I have. Anyone ever swap an electric choke onto an older Q-jet (and how did you do it)?

 

[mechted]

the style you had is called "divorced" choke
ive done the swap on my M4ME carb (hot air choke) but i havent done it on my 4MV (divorced choke) yet... i tried it and the linkages were different, the electric housing moved the choke cam inboard too far to engage on the choke follower... i havent figured out a method to make it work yet

 

[Brocky]

I am currently at this project. not because I want to jsut because my other carb crapped out and the old one I am rebuilding has no choke. Let you know tomarrow if I got it to work.

 

[Blazer1970]

http://www.carburetion.com/quadrajet.asp

look at the bottom of the page.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

http://www.carburetion.com/quadrajet.asp

look at the bottom of the page.

Yep, that is the first thing I tried (ordering that choke from that company). I waited for 3 months for them to ship it to me and they didn't know when they would have them in stock again. Needless to say, when the motor finally went in I went with a manual choke. That kit is pretty expensive too.

 

[dyeager535]

the style you had is called "divorced" choke
ive done the swap on my M4ME carb (hot air choke) but i havent done it on my 4MV (divorced choke) yet... i tried it and the linkages were different, the electric housing moved the choke cam inboard too far to engage on the choke follower... i havent figured out a method to make it work yet

My dad found similar...electric choke just won't fit on certain Q-jet castings.