I bought an edelbrock 600 cfm carb yesterday (1406 model) the carb I have now is a cc rochester quadrajet with electric choke...The edelbrock also has an electric choke but no where to plug the other 2 wires in because its not computer controlled, can I just keep these wires detatched and hide them or would something not work right??? please help because I wanna put it on today

 

no, you can't, the distributor timming is controlled but the computer which gets some of the data it needs from the carb. (I.E.--throttle position), and if you have an automatic with overdrive then the lockup in the tranny will not work.

if you want to switch to a non computer carb then you will have to replace the dist. and come up with a way to lockup the torque converter manually.

 

umm....i unplugged the carb to see if it would hurt anything....everything worked fine, so proceeded with the swap...bad idea???

 

did you drive the car after unhooking the carb? I'll bet the performance is WAY down because the timming won't advance.

 

Of course I drove it, drove the same as it did without it, i put the edelbrock on today...looks like everything works fine