Can anyone give me the rough price on how much a Qjet power piston would cost, and maybe some primary metering rods. Not asking for anyone to sell me, but just curious what I may be looking in to.

Check these guys out (http://www.quadrajet.com), they have all kinds of parts for Q-Jets. I've purchased from them before, seem to offer good service.

Originally posted by soccerguy045:
Can anyone give me the rough price on how much a Qjet power piston would cost, and maybe some primary metering rods. Not asking for anyone to sell me, but just curious what I may be looking in to. Why do you need a new power piston? Or are you missing the old one? IF missing, get a trashed carb for cheap, strip it clean. Then you have jets, rods, secondary rods, AND a new power piston, not to mention other commonly lost parts. IF you ARENT missing the old one, what are you trying to do? TUne it? Ebrock sells a kit of springs for Qjet power pistons- they also sell metering rods. A Qjet power piston is not one of those things you can just go down to Azone and buy like a Holley power valve, unfortunately.

The reason I need a new power piston is because, if you can picture this, there is the cylinder part of the piston and then two 'wings' that the primary metering rods attach to. One of the 'wings' is bent upward, so a rod can't go in its jet, and the piston won't stay down. I was told I could probably bend it back to even level, but if something is just a bit wrong and it doesn't work, I'm hosed, because my Chevelle that I'm wanting to do this work on (swapping carb/intake) will be down, and its the only car I have to drive, so I wanted to be certain. A new power piston would probably ease my conscience when I do the install.

Originally posted by soccerguy045:
The reason I need a new power piston is because, if you can picture this, there is the cylinder part of the piston and then two 'wings' that the primary metering rods attach to. One of the 'wings' is bent upward, so a rod can't go in its jet, and the piston won't stay down. I was told I could probably bend it back to even level, but if something is just a bit wrong and it doesn't work, I'm hosed, because my Chevelle that I'm wanting to do this work on (swapping carb/intake) will be down, and its the only car I have to drive, so I wanted to be certain. A new power piston would probably ease my conscience when I do the install. Actually, Id bet the wing CAN be bent "even"- if you are CAREFUL. Give it a shot, what have you got to lose ;) ? Still, get a toasted crapped out Qjet at the Junk yard and get teh power piston would be the second best route, IMHO.

As for it staying in its bore, have you tried pressing down on the little plastic collar that surrounds the piston? Use a TINY screwdriver and press down on that plastic collar till its even with the top of the bore its in. When teh air horn is OFF the carb, the wing is of no consequence. SO, IF you can keep it down when teh air horn is OFF, which you can by doing as I stated above, bending the wing to where it should be should put you back in business..