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I haven't updated this thread lately because I haven't been doing much to the car besides driving it! Tom came over a couple of weeks ago and we put on the 3" mandrel bent exhaust along with his hi flow mufflers. They sound real nice but we've got to work on getting tail pipes on it to get the exhaust out the back. I bought some 3" tailpipes from Heartthrob Exhaust that are meant for a Camaro/Nova (I know, blasphemy!!!) that Tom thinks we can cut up and make work for my application. He came over the other night and that is going to be a winter project. It will involve moving some brake lines and maybe even rotating the calipers out of the way. We shall see. Here's a pic of the exhaust installed.
I've been playing around with the timing and think that I've got it finally dialed in. I was getting a little concerned because we originally set it up at 20 degrees intial 35 total and I've been driving it that way. I bumped it up a degree and it ran better, so I bumped it up another. Currently running 22/37 degrees and it seems to like it real well.
I'm taking the car to a chassis dyno this afternoon and they are going to dial in my jetting and metering rods using an air/fuel gauge. It's a friend of a friend thing and he's doing it in his shop after hours at a discounted rate. I'll try to post up a video and some numbers tonight if I'm not too busy out burning tires!
I haven't updated this thread lately because I haven't been doing much to the car besides driving it! Tom came over a couple of weeks ago and we put on the 3" mandrel bent exhaust along with his hi flow mufflers. They sound real nice but we've got to work on getting tail pipes on it to get the exhaust out the back. I bought some 3" tailpipes from Heartthrob Exhaust that are meant for a Camaro/Nova (I know, blasphemy!!!) that Tom thinks we can cut up and make work for my application. He came over the other night and that is going to be a winter project. It will involve moving some brake lines and maybe even rotating the calipers out of the way. We shall see. Here's a pic of the exhaust installed.
I've been playing around with the timing and think that I've got it finally dialed in. I was getting a little concerned because we originally set it up at 20 degrees intial 35 total and I've been driving it that way. I bumped it up a degree and it ran better, so I bumped it up another. Currently running 22/37 degrees and it seems to like it real well.
I'm taking the car to a chassis dyno this afternoon and they are going to dial in my jetting and metering rods using an air/fuel gauge. It's a friend of a friend thing and he's doing it in his shop after hours at a discounted rate. I'll try to post up a video and some numbers tonight if I'm not too busy out burning tires!
