New Motor In and Running!!

crackedback said

J,

IMHO, 5-8 isn't enough. Put 10-12 on it and maybe even more. More lead, to a point = better vacuum signal. Additionally, you can close down carb primaries and clean up your idle settings.

Down side to put a bunch of lead on the crank, you may have to limit distributor advance by jb welding up the wieght slots in your distributor.

I ALWAYS like to put as much lead on the crank as possible without, pinging, run-on dieseling or starter kickback.

Screw the old man... tune it in the driveway before 10pm... stupid old pruney bastard. :thebirdm:

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Lol. That's exactly what my father said, except he said he would run it with open headers. I shouldn't worry so much, except I hate dealing with the police. If the car is so much as idling for a period of 10 min or so in the driveway, he will call them up. The next time it happens, my dad is filing a complaint to the city, since we follow all ordinances and are not obnoxious whatsoever. Would you believe the police told me to take my tools and go to the park if I wanted to run my car?! Does that sound like the voice of reason or extreme irrationality? Let him get his way, while I get screwed? F%% that. All of the rest of the neighbors love and welcome the cars in my cul-de-sac!!

Anywho, I will try setting it at at least 8 degrees after TDC and lower the idle speed down to a level where I can still hear the lope from the cam. I always tune with a light and on the last combo, I also tuned by ear on the road under different loads and different speeds until I was right on the ragged edge of detonating/pinging. It ran great like that. Runs a little warmer than before, but that is probably due to the fact that the motor is still tight.