Under the index for under a grand!

[George W]

Update please Billy,Good or Bad ?

[Billy Nees]

Geez, talk about ungrateful cars! I brought it home from Cecil 2 years ago and parked it in the field and when I went to use it, I had to put a new battery AND spark plugs in it! But, now that I think about it, the battery and plugs weren't new 2 years ago when I put them in.
At any rate, I had an "NHRA Newbie" in the car this weekend. Wayne is one of those fast street car guys so he's no stranger to racing, just to NHRA racing. The car seemed to like the headers and the dammed carb for the first 1/8th of the track but no matter how I jetted it it didn't want to run in high gear. I think that I'm getting into some kind of a float-drop issue(for lack of a better term) when it gets into high gear. It's not running out of gas but it's going dead lean to the point of lean misfiring. The 60' and 1/8th times were pretty good but no matter what I did, it was off at least 6 MPH. For the 1st rd, I raised the float much too high and it just didn't go anywhere.
Oh well, back to the drawing board!

[Daran Summerton]

Its the cam

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Daran Summerton

Its the cam

Was just thinking that.The exhaust side is too good!

[Daran Summerton]

I'm fighting this exact same problem and its frustrating. Changed springs, fuel system, float levels, big needles, C11 does help, but in the end Tina is right, its the camshaft. Now the trick is a balance of decent low end and acceptable high end. 11.60 @ 107 popping all the way ain't gonna work. Probably gonna give Comp a try and I'll let you know how it compares to the violent Bullet lobe.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Daran Summerton

Its the cam

It's always the cam....................or the converter. Then again, maybe it's just me! I'll get it figgered out.

[Mark Yacavone]

It's not the converter!

[Lee Valentine]

Went crazy recently with big cube Ford on the dyno couldn't get it rich enough. The cam was over scavenging,

[Dan Fahey]

Have you checked the Sock in the Sending unit inside the gas tank?
Sometimes in old cars they get all gummed up and the sock breaks down and get sucked inside the tube !

Happened to my 1969 Galaxie XL with 429/360hp way back when.

Actually had a second problem, a cracked hose connecting the Sending Unit to the gas line.

Dan

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Lee Valentine

Went crazy recently with big cube Ford on the dyno couldn't get it rich enough. The cam was over scavenging,

Thank You, Lee! I tell people that and they say I'm nuts!
With that being said, with the wacky heads on this car, even though I have a very small exhaust lobe in it, the new headers could be doing something similar. I might be smart to just try the original headers again.