At least this guy is up-front about it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33550&item=2442252253 Now you can get any rare carb you ever wanted from this guy. :laugh:
stamping parts You know, the Corvette guys have been doing this for years. Restamping blocks, trannys etc..I personally think its a great idea. Rare castings are few and far between. Sometimes they are unrebuildable. When they do go up for sale, they are prohibitively expensive. As far as someone down the line "forgetting" to tell...no matter what you buy, its always buyer beware. Just like anything else, if you know what to look for as far as machining marks and date codes, you wont get taken. Im waiting for re stamped Stage 1 distributors to surface.
Well... I personally think it's a horrible idea & I'm not impressed with said vendor's "restorations". Said carb restorers use of gold cad plating, just does not look original. Since I have numerous low mile original Rochestor Q-jets from this era, along with quite a few original date Rochestor remans from the mid '70's, there is a definite difference in what an original looks like plating wise, as to what we are seeing from this vendor on E-Bay. The Ram Air, Stg 1, & W30 real Quadrajets have intricate little differences inside... not the same as generic (built a 100,000 of same year, same GM division) Q-jet. Just changing jets, metering rods, & power piston spring is NOT going to make such a restamped carb perform like an original high performance version. There was THIEF on e-Bay, last year selling fake Ram Air Pontiac Q-jets. He was out of the West Palm Beach, Florida area. Kept shifting his "rare" Ram Air Q-jets around, selling them under three different e-Bay names. Same fellow was exposed on PY board & all of his previous buyers were e-mailed as to the fraudulent carbs that they had "won" The only folks truly interested in having the correct carb on their cars are collectors. Too many times, the Joe Carlots of this world, have to buy & use counterfeited parts to leapfrog poorly restored cars up the food chain. What, in trhis instance, seems to be a vendors offer of a money saving gesture, often costs the next buyer... costs them big time. For this reason, hard to support even blatant (to us) restamps.
a guy that has some of those fraudulent parts in/on his car, drives to a bar. there is a girl there he wants to pick up so he says to her "oh!,,, you mean this old thing? since my wife died, i have found it hard to take off of my finger." of course his wife is really alive and at home with those boring kids of his. same thing cheat, fraud, liar, it dont matter who he is lying to.... its just that he is a liar.
