Worth the effort?

Here are the specs on whats in the car, off the line performance has been dismal from day one, lays over with a nice bog. Hell I've even managed to get it to stall a few times. It's been tuned by me and my Dad-a mechanic of 30 plus years- The shop that built the engine used a 4 gas analyzer and the last guy which puts me here. I'm going to do some checks on the engine itself and see where that gets me. I have a growing urge to pull the plug but the way the car runs I couldn't even sell it for near whats into it so OI might as well spend more and fix it.

The distributor was curved by Daves Mopar so I know its done right. Base timing is 18deg all in mechanically around 2200-2500 with a total of 34deg. Now new this year is it pings on WOT for a breif moment not a thing was changed from last year to this and it pings with fresh tank of 91 octane.

650 Speed Demon mechanical secondaries, #66 Jet front #31 discharge nozzle #68 Jet in the rear with a #25 rear discharge nozzle on an edelbrock rpm intake

Stock J Heads 2.02 intake 1.60 exhaust and Crane Gold 1.5 ratio rocker arms.

3.55 gears and a 727 with 3000 stall from SMR, stage 2 shift kit from transgo.

It runs a Hughes cam #heh2328al

111deg lobe seperation/installed centerline 108deg
intake lift .506/ exhaust .524

[email protected] Intake223deg/ Exhaust 228deg

Cam timing @ .050” Tappet Lift

Intake Opens: 3.5 Deg BTC
Exhaust Opens: 48 Deg BBC

Intake Closes: 39.5 Deg ABC
Exhaust Closes: 0 Deg ATC


Engine is .060 over with Keith Black Hypereutectic pistons on stock rods and a stock forged crank.

Ignition is an FBO box