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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Westminster, CO
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Manual choke to Electric choke
Hey everybody,
I was wondering how hard it would be to go from a manual choke to an electric choke. I'm looking at switching to a smaller carb as I have a edelbrock 750 which is just to much for my engine currently. Some of the edlebrock 600's i've been looking at have electric chokes.
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
should be easy all you need is ignition power wire to power it when the key is on
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
Too easy. You just need a 12v source that's on when the ignition is on.
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
I guess the next question is how hard is it to add a 12v source?
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
It's literally as simple as finding a wire that's on only when the ignition is on and running a splice from there to the choke coil.
If you go to the fuse block, there's a terminal marked IGN. You can run a wire from there if there's not something closer under the hood. |
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
If the carb has a manual choke & you want to change to electric, Edelbrock has a kit to change it over.
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
Great info everybody you have given a great start on converting "The Beast"
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
I would suggest looking at the Edelbrock AVS carbs. They are a 650 CFM carb and fit the needs of a truck much better than the 600 does.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
I have a 600 CFM Edelbrock I converted over to electric choke sitting on my engine right now. If I was home I would pull it off and send it to you for a $150 or trade for your 750. I already have a 650 I bought for replacement. But I plan on building the engine up a hair more... If you don't do it before till around the end of January, keep me in mind.
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Location: Westminster, CO
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
Right now I'm just getting an idea on the conversion and I still have to find a carb. I will you in mind GMCJOE as I'm not sure when I will be doing this. I might get the conversion kit now and that way in the future I can just switch out the carb.
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
I do just the opposite. I buy electric choke carbs and convert them to manual.
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Cartier manitoba
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Re: Manual choke to Electric choke
I have an electric choke on a quadrajet and I am considering converting to manual choke. I can never seem to get the electric choke to work to my liking. In my 67 GMC with 6 cyl I have a manual choke that works excellent and I really like it. You could purchase and install a kit to convert and if it does not work good for you then you could go back to manual choke. Good luck.
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