Hi again.
It isn't really hating. Personally, I have no emotional involvement at all with the Rochesters. It's just that they all leak, all the time. I've never seen a Rochester that didn't spend most of it's life leaking until someone finally got around to throwing it in the trash. I don't want my carburetor to leak, so, I don't want a Rochester, because, as I might have mentioned
, it will leak. It was the primary choice for General Motors vehicles for years, and that should tell you that, no matter what else is said about it, it will be extremely primitive compared to what everyone else was doing at the same time. The steering system of a 1962 Corvette is identical in every respect to the steering system of a 1932 Ford. The mid to late 60s goats had that ridiculous set-up with the positive battery cable running straight down to the starterwhile stopping to lean on the exhaust manifold on the way. This was a problem back then, and they still do that on Suburbans to this day as far as I know. They were still putting two speed automatic transmissions in cars in 1970. They had the main power feed for the interior of the car running through the horn relay.
Why put a break in that wire in the first place? They also had to make it twice as long as it needed to be just so they could run it through the horn relay, and have the main power feed junction get all corroded and funky because the connectors were uninsulated. The only place where G.M. was ahead of the curve on Ford and Chrysler was when they started losing billions of dollars annually 15 years before Ford and Chrysler back when everyone else and the economy in general was doing fine.
The people at Pontiac had to back-door the goats as an option package or the big wheels at G.M. would have killed the whole program before it ever got started, just like they did the Cheetah. That's why only 6 of those were built. Some of the suits from G.M. saw one of them on the track, realized it was fast, and killed the program, because they would tell you in a heartbeat " We don't build race cars". The fact that Rochester was the choice of these same people should tell folks very clearly that this is not a performance carburetor. If it was, G.M. wouldn't have used it.
Geez!
That ran on a lot longer than I i ntended it to.
chevy carb on a ford? 
