From the postwar era to the mid-'80s, General Motors' Rochester Division defined carburetor performance. Rochester also developed the mechanical fuel injection systems found on '57-'59 full-size ...

If there were a category titled Good Carb, Bad Reputation, the Rochester Quadrajet would be at the top of that hit parade. It's doubtful there is a domestic fuel mixer more universally misunderstood ...

Until throttle body fuel injection started taking over in the 1980s, if you had a General Motors product with a V-8 engine, you could just about guarantee a Quadrajet manufactured by Rochester would ...