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All due respect, you are jumping the gun something awful. It sounds like you need to spend some time and a little money figuring out what you have before you go balls deep into a rebuild. 1.) If you don't know what you are doing rebuilding a Q-Jet you probably made a few mistakes. Even seasoned car guys trash Qjets because they can be hard to tune or work with. I'm not going to say run to a Holley, but this establishes that your carb is an issue. 2.) You had a big vacuum leak. If you tried to tune it with the open line you need to redo your tune. 3.) The vacuum advance that I am speaking of can help your car run cleaner. Make sure there is a vacuum line running to your distributor. If you can, take a couple pics and post them up. And some more info about the underhood setup would help. |
idk lol, where they attach to the block itself the metal and rust is coming off in rather large flakes, not to mention even with a new header back exhaust i still here exhaust coming from right infront of me so i know there's a hole in them somewhere, how much are a nice set of long tube headers? i want more acceleration in this puppy lol i dont care about top end speed really, just 0-60, i never go faster...unless on the parkway lol
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$170 with the discount posted on here. These are also ceramic coated so they will look nice for a while and will keep the underhood temps down. That exhaust is probably an exhaust leak from blown gaskets or a monkey fisted install. |
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WBT is right, time to stop guessing & start testing!
you might just be seeing flakes of old coating & hear gasket leaks. amazing what a sandblaster and some eastwood manifold paint will do to old rusty headers: Rusty: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../IMG_0247x.jpg Sandblasted: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../IMG_0250x.jpg Done: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../IMG_1454a.jpg |
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http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...c76a7043_b.jpg TO: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...IMG_2591-1.jpg Yes, not as good, but this was with hand sanding and painting pitted headers. |
ooo not bad, i want to get a new exhaust regardless of what happens with the engine, it just doesnt sound mean enough and it feels like it is being really held back, the carb i was thinking about going Edelbrock, what would you guys think? i like Holey, but i heard Edelbrock is just as good and i can get them for cheaper from my buddy. any who, when i get my first few checks i was going to go for long tube headers with an x pipe and duel exhaust. now back to the engine, i want to learn how to rebuild engines eventually, so sooner or later i want to get a crate and drop it in while working on the engine, or maybe have a beater while i rebuild that engine, not sure yet. oh and yes there is a vacuum line running to my carb lol
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mine are pitted to hell, what cha gonna do?
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An Edelbrock carb is fine. They are based off of the Carter AFB. |
hmm im not sure if there is, i believe someone said that it wasnt a vacuum advance distributor, but i cannot remember, i will have to check when it is sunny 2marow, should i take pictures of the engine if i can get my camera working to better explain everything?
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