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I will definitely add the carb to my check list as the prior owner made some adjustment to the jets. It seems to be dumping gas and running rich but this maybe from the potential low compression. Work in progress..

Thanks for all of the info. That makes a lot of sense about the 340 having the lower compression. Everyone kept driving towards that converter but thats only part of it. I will start looking around for some 318 heads to begin with.

c/r?

Yes when they built the engine they were trying increase power from the carb. I plan to put the correct jets back in the 650 carb. I am not sure of the timing.

So I have definitely multiple issues. I will do some additional questioning to see if I can get the cam specs. I knew that was an issue. The engine is going and seem like it wants to go but the power is not to the wheels.

It has the low profile wheels so they only sit 24" high. The rear end might have a technically different ratio 3:42 but I measured by the revolutions of the tire vs the drive shaft to come up with the 3:23. As for the timing aspect it seemed to be running well and idling great but not 100%...

I recently purchased a 73 Scamp that was mostly redone. The problem with it is that it is very sluggish even though the engine wants to go. The person I purchased the car from and his mechanic blamed the stall for this. He originally installed a new converter with a 3400 stall and then updated...