Another Q-Jet question

[D S.]

The carburetor on my '70 454 Corvette has the following numbers:7041211 indicating it is a '71 454 carburetor for standard transmission but the other numbers, a 1T, then followed by 2240 seems to indicate it being built the 224th day of 1970 or late August 1970. Correct? Why the heck do I have a '71 carburetor for a car built in March '70 with an automatic transmission? Me thinks someone replaced the carburetor at some point in time and didn't fully know what they were doing.

Thanks,
Scott

[Joe L.]

Re: Another Q-Jet question

Scott-----

Yes, methinks you're right. Somebody replaced the carburetor at some time. Whether they knew what they were doing, or not, I don't know. It depends what they were interested in. Very likely, this carburetor went through a commercial rebuilding operation and was "built up" to a carburetor which would SERVICE your application. The original numbers don't mean a lot after a carb (or, other part) has been through a rebuilding operation. For a carburetor, the basic core has to be reconfigurable to the application. The 7041211 would qualify as a core that would be functionally reconfigurable to the 70 application.

If the person that replaced it was just interested in a functional replacement, then they knew exactly what they were doing.