1986 la 360

Mopar Daddy,
Had that same Q Jet on my dads Ramcharger worked great. That Q jet will work good with the cold winter there. Exspecialy the cold mornings in the canyon. Pros for the Q jet (I do run thermo Q to)
tons of parts even in the bone yards you mentioned money ( Cortez had a big one south of town on truck bypass)
electronic choke, (Nice Plus)
small primary, large secondary
easy to tune.
Did I SAY cheap parts
Thermoquad did not have electronic choke on those 80 truck ones that I have seen. So you would have to find all the linkage and stuff unless you got it off the donor.