Frankendart Lives!

Lol, yeah, though I think I'm to the point where I wouldn't mind taking it to the strip for some time slips. I think I'd still be a little disappointed by the numbers, but at least I think the engine would run smoothly for the whole pull as opposed to cutting out like it was before.

Right now I'm playing around with the knock sensors and trying to see if I can make a little circuit that will light an LED whenever the knock sensors pass a certain threshold. I've found some circuits online that should do it, but the Dodge knock sensors are like no other ones apparently. They don't measure any resistance across any pins or to ground like others are supposed to (I measured what I assume are good ones in my grandparents 5.7 truck that doesn't have any codes showing and still got nothing), and the wiring makes even less sense. Both wires to the driver's side sensor showed 2.6 volts or so on my grandparents truck and the passenger side both had 0 volts. From what I can guess they are resonant sensors that require a certain frequency before they really put out any output. It seems like the carb cars really like timing from what I've seen on the forum and experienced myself, and I think that would account for some of my missing power, but I don't want to push it too far with stock pistons, so a knock LED would be a nice addition, however crude it might be.

The other thing would be to tie into the stock O2 sensors with a meter or something and see where the carb appears to be tuned. I'll probably take the car to a dyno some day when I get the extra money to afford it, but for now it would be fun to see what I can come up with using what I have.