Right now I am extactic as I purchased an 82 trans am with everything I was looking for.

82 w/auto V8
T-Tops
PMD seats (driver seat is powered)
PW, PL
15" Turbo cast rims
Air induction cowl

I was thinking about a Edelbrock performer series carb, does anyone know if this will work or is a good match for this car?

 

Congrats on the car, a wise choice
First thing you should do is sell those ***-awful looking wheels, get some coin from it, and buy some normal wheels. Those are a hot ticket item for the resto/kitt-car crowd, and they're uglier then sin for everybody else...

No, that carb is not what you want, many many reasons...
If you want to shell out some cash and get some power, look into headers, and a muffler, it'll sound nicer, and you'll get a large amount of power / $ return on it.
Good luck.

 

Actually I will be turning this car into K.I.T.T.

Regardless, I do actually like the rims. Why not the Edelbrock carb? I heard nothing but good things.

 

The factory carb isn't bad, so you wouldn't actually gain anything by switching to that carb, just be losing $300 or so...
It's a good carb I imagine, just no better then what you have.

Plus you'd need a new dist (you're in the USA right?), so that'll jack up the cost as well. And you'll have to pull your check engine light, or enjoy watching it light up all the time. Anyway, the carb isn't the way to better performance.

 

Thanks for the info and I am not in the US, I'm in Vancouver. By the way, do you know what engine these 82's had? Was it the 305?

 

Hmm, I use the Performer carb and intake on my 86 Sport Coupe with a LG4 305 and have had no problems, retrofitings or otherwise

 

'zactly, with a canadian model you don't need the new dist.
( put vancouver in your location bar, that would simplify these questions...)

so yea, it'd be a direct swap, I just personally don't think it'd help much. Maybe someone else has another opinion.

And yes, it's a 305, thats a scary question then, figured you'd know that... you may just have cross-fire injection too, if you haven't inspected it closely....? or, in the last 23 years, someone could have already dropped in a 350... know the history of the car?

If you do have a q-jet carb on it now, then yea, it's an LG4, (most likely) 150HP rocket sled there....

 

A Performer carb isn't a direct swap. It's a square pattern mount, and the car (if it came with a quadrajet) has a spreadbore pattern intake manifold. Adapter or new intake manifold required.

Regardless, the Performer isn't an upgrade over a q-jet. If you don't have a carb, then the Performer might be a possibility. Otherwise, save the money and use it where it counts.

(Somewhere on the Exhaust forum a good while back, somebody posted a pic of Kitt up on two wheels - the studio had somebody fabricate a dual exhaust system for it unlike anything seen before or since. Really weird.)