EFI all the way unless you like living in the 70's. That guy 331strokerstang had some stuff for sale. He is doing a carb motor swap in his car. Maybe he could hook you up.
best way to get a carb brand new, if you want performance and know how to tune go holley, if you want something you can drive every day without touching it buy an edelbrock 1406 from autozone, its 300 bucks, but you know its brand new and will run right, all you really need to do is adjust the idle
i have a 1406 on it i bought new it ran like crap out of the box too lean i bought a calibration kit i did what the guy at edelbrock told me too now it loads up if it idles to long starts hard if it sits for a few minuites and it did horriable at the track any help
not 100% sure where its timed exactly anymore my dads friend screwed with iyt to try make it better it runs good no pings and i have choke issues so i just adjusted it all the way open and i dont use it
well step one should be figuring out where the timing is set, that could be 99% of your issue right there, the air/fuel mixture srews on the front of the carb are prob your issues at idle if the timing is set ok, with the car running, one at a time turn them in till the car starts to stumble, then back them off a 1/4 turn, do this with each side, you will have to adjust the fast idle after that, its going to run like shit in the winter without a choke, i know when mine wasnt working i could barely start my car n/m letting it idle
also do you have vacuum advance? when you set the timing with vac advance you have to pull the hose off this dist. and cover it so it's not sucking air....
no vaccum advance full msd im gona try adjusting the idle air screws again the way the guy from edelbrock told me to use a vaccume gauge and turn them till it made3 the most vaccume at an idle and i definitly think that is my problem thanks for the help have you changed jets or metering rods in yours
no vaccum advance full msd im gona try adjusting the idle air screws again the way the guy from edelbrock told me to use a vaccume gauge and turn them till it made3 the most vaccume at an idle and i definitly think that is my problem thanks for the help have you changed jets or metering rods in yours
i've always done it without the vacuum gauge, try it that way just to see how it goes first, make sure the engine is hot when you're doing all this too, i have not changed the jets or anything yet, i need to purchase a wideband before i do anything like that to see where im at. so im assuming you have a mechanical advance dist? have you tried changing the weights and springs?
no i realy dont know much about the msd distributors i know its a dual pick up with a 6 al box other than that im not sure about it i put an air/fuel gauge in my car its fine when driveing it just hot starts hard (turns over alot) and its rich when it starts so its flooding and it loads up alot so it must be the idle air screws are off i changed my jets and metering rods to what the guy from edelbrock told me to try and its better
not starting when its hot could be a bunch of stuff, what kind of plugs do you run? like i said before i would re-check the timing before i did anything
well ive just never owned a carb car ive had a bunch of efi cars and been in and out on those this is all new to me so im just trying what people tell me and i havent been throwing parts at it i tryed 2 carbs people gave me trhat were junk and my buddys edelbrock 750 i had it running good with that but he needed it back so i bought a new one hopeing it would be a bolt and go and its not
i did what you said to adjust it that worked great from an idle i went to a smaller metering rod and it was runing pretty good only had a small hesitation from idle to punched but it was livable seemed to start better and everything so i took it for a ride i was driving along and it just died now it wont start i think either the pickup in the distributor or the msd box its self burnt out but it was much better till it died burned 2nd like nothing again sucks it dont run now but ow well back to the drawing board time to pull the 306 and put my 347 in
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