Rebuilding Carburetors

[60vettesdr]

I have a 1960 283/245 with 2x4 carburetors that need to be rebuilt. Before anyone suggests it there is no way on this green earth that I can do it myself. That being said what can I expect to pay to have this done? When it is done what should the car idle at cold and warmed up? It presently idles @ about 1200-1500 rpms all of the time. I would appreciate any information anyone can give me.
Thanks,
Scott

 

[JohnZ]

Rebuilding old carburetors isn't that difficult, but unless you know what you're dealing with in terms of mismatched parts, wrong and/or warped castings, sloppy throttle shafts that need to be bushed to stop vacuum and fuel leaks, and all the other myriad maladies that affect 40-year-old pot-metal carburetors, you may not be any further ahead than when you started. Rebuilding old carburetors (properly) involves more than a cleaning and new gaskets, as others have been in there before you, and you don't know what they've done; they quit making these things (WCFB's) 39 years ago.

The best guy in the business for WCFB's is Bob Kunz in St. Louis (314-845-2566); the last pair he did for me ("street rebuild") was about $250 each; the full-monty NCRS restoration (coloring, plating, etc.) was about $100 each more. He runs every one on a test engine before shipping it back; bolt them on, set the idle rpm, and forget about them. He rebuilds them exactly back to the correct original factory specifications for each application, and he has ALL the correct parts.