NEED HELP! carb is extremely shot on my DD '66

[yellow400ex05]

Alright so the other day I had stomped on it in my '66 C10 with the factory original 283 2 Barrel v8 and it had good power for about 5 seconds and then lost all its power and wouldn't take over 1/10th throttle. Now I assumed it was the accelerator pump so I ordered a kit and took it down to the mechanic and figured it would be fairly straight forward, but it turns out a TON of junk let loose in the tank and bombed the carburetor and jets, and among that multiple parts are missing from the carb from over the years and now i either need to hunt down an original 2 barrel for parts or covert to a 4 barrel which i had intended to do down the road.

Well, I need to know, what carb is a good carb for my original '66 283? I don't want to have to put different valve covers on it for a breather, will I have to do that to run a 1406 500CFM Edelbrock?

here's the 66 283 in my 1957 Chevy, it has a 1406 Edelbrock carb, but I don't want to take off my original nice Chevy script valve covers. would I have to convert with the carb you see here if I were to use it for my '66 C10? or is there a way to run those breathers to somewhere else on my engine that i don't know about?


help me out here, i need my truck to get to work and can't afford a ton of down time.