Live from O'Reilly Nationals in Baytown

[Ed Carpenter]

Well I still have a problem. Engine does sound ok now with the new box. Had MSD make up some new wires. Left at 8800 and it pulled it down to 5000. Clutch only has two turns. So we put the clutch on zero turns and well see tommorow. If that doesn't do it were out of here. Dyno time next week. I'll post more pic tonight. Ed

[MikeMoller]

Ed,

Had similar problem once, the bottom of the intake manifold was just barely bottoming out on the block, and under load the car would not run.Idling and burnouts were fine. Intake manifold gaskets looked compressed. We happened to lay the intake on the motor without any gaskets and noticed the manifold sides were not touching the heads at all, milled some off bottom of the intake on the ends and problem was solved.

[Darrin Christen]

Ed, Thanks for the great pictures. I hope you get rid of the bad luck soon. Have you checked the fuel system? If its starving for fuel it won't carry a load, but may sound fine otherwise.

[Kenny Wigington]

Take off the alternator belt, and do the flow test with the fuel system, now. You might find something.

[Brett Brown]

Originally Posted by deuces wild

Well I still have a problem. Engine does sound ok now with the new box. Had MSD make up some new wires. Left at 8800 and it pulled it down to 5000. Clutch only has two turns. So we put the clutch on zero turns and well see tommorow. If that doesn't do it were out of here. Dyno time next week. I'll post more pic tonight. Ed

Hey Ed, sorry to hear that you are still having issues. I had a problem with my motor (wouldn't go past 6500) and it ended up being a transmission (auto) problem, as it was trying to go into 2 gears at once and wouldn't let the motor RPM. Don't know if it applies being that you are running a stick now, but who knows.
Good luck, you'll get it figured out.

[Ed Carpenter]

Sorry I simply didn't have time today to to get pictures or much else. We have tried everything and then some to fix our problem without success. Going to try to forget about it enjoy the races tommorow and head to the house. I'm going to pull the engine on monday and my son will dyno it. Then I will know if it's the engine or the car. I'll try to get the rest of the pictures tommorow of cars I missed.

[Jeff Teuton]

Looking at the Sat. plan, I think you guys gonna be late. One round stock, three rounds of ss class, throw in a super class or two, and a top dragster hit, all by 10:30, and 4 rounds of ss by 8 pm. Yall gonna be late.

[Larry Hill]

Ed thank you for all your reporting. Wish you the best of luck in finding what is wrong with your car.

[Ed Carpenter]

I'm sorry I wasn't a better reporter this weekend. We had trouble and we were working on the car. I left this morning and dropped the car off at my sons. Going to dyno the engine and see where were at with that and go from there. Thanks for all the advice I got. Thanks again to Ed Wright for the box and the help. Ed

[SStockDart]

Sorry????? no reason to be Ed. Thanks for your reporting. Good luck, hope it is something inexpensive...