1979 Chevy C10 - C-10 Performance

The Live Wires were installed by starting with the No. 1 plug wire, followed by the next number in the firing order, adhering to the engine's clockwise rotation.

We were not concerned with tucking the LiveWires tightly to the engine until after we set the engine's final timing.

Having SMI rebuild and blueprint our Big 10 Quadrajet meant we would be getting our core back and not something out of a pile of unidentifiable Quadrajet cores from an unknown previous application.

In addition to rebushing the throttle shafts and epoxying the Welch plugs in, all SMI-built Quadrajets are converted to have adjustable intermediary metering rods that can be adjusted with the engine running.

After having SMI go to the trouble of blueprinting our Big 10's Quadrajet, we felt the carburetor deserved a premium high-performance air cleaner element from K&N.

Although our distributor and carburetor were identical to stock on the outside, the key to obtaining a boatload of extra horsepower for the Big 10 was the availability of custom-ordering our engine's exact needs from Performance Distributors and SMI.