Not for Nuthin' But Close!

Mark Yacavone · 03-14-2021, 10:59 PM

Billy, I probably told you this, but when we got the Monte, we took it to the track, completely stock, 200K on it, 2.91 gears..just some shorter street tires.. It only ran in the 16's but enough MPH to run the index in DF/S.
The last run, we took the complete exhaust of the car, from the cat. , back... It should have picked up something, just from the weight loss....It picked up NOTHING!
I kinda figured it couldn't richen itself up, accordingly, so the lean-ness killed it.
Yours sounds like a torque, or lack of it, situation. I wouldn't take the header off yet. Unless maybe back up on the exhaust, and change the final drive and put a fairly tight 245 mm converter with the lock up plate removed....If it likes that, then go back to the header..Just a thought or two..

03-14-2021, 10:59 PM	#11
Mark Yacavone Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Miles From Nowhere Posts: 7,836 Likes: 2,930 Liked 5,148 Times in 1,965 Posts	Re: Not for Nuthin' But Close! Billy, I probably told you this, but when we got the Monte, we took it to the track, completely stock, 200K on it, 2.91 gears..just some shorter street tires.. It only ran in the 16's but enough MPH to run the index in DF/S. The last run, we took the complete exhaust of the car, from the cat. , back... It should have picked up something, just from the weight loss....It picked up NOTHING! I kinda figured it couldn't richen itself up, accordingly, so the lean-ness killed it. Yours sounds like a torque, or lack of it, situation. I wouldn't take the header off yet. Unless maybe back up on the exhaust, and change the final drive and put a fairly tight 245 mm converter with the lock up plate removed....If it likes that, then go back to the header..Just a thought or two.. __________________ "We are lucky we don't get as much Government as we pay for." Will Rogers