1972 Dodge Colt

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T&T at Ferris last night.
I have a lot to digest after last night.
The Colt leaves very hard, I wasn't ready for the first launch and it caught me off guard.
That said it falls on its face after the launch.
I put the Mallory back in because I knew the curve.
It is at 32 total now and it sounds lazy in the videos.
I see a little black smoke this launch, and the T-Handle came loose 1st to 2nd.
Tires at 13.5 and on the first pass it did a little wheelie.
With no front travel it just hops and then it starts to motor out.
I wish now I had gotten the playback tach, I am in the dark on shift points and rpm.
Going to look at the data I have and see what I can learn.
I might put the Weiand on to see if that works any better.
This intake is the only one I have ever seen with this big plenum.
I do know this, it will have the Webers on it after the Clay City race in September.



A couple of pictures, the plenum and then on top of a Hyper Pak.
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Where's initial timing? They like a ton with a big cam. 30 to 32 is about right for the total. I like how it jumps. lol
 
Stan, The first thing I see is that the burn out wasn't enough to get the tires good & hot. It also sounds a bit lazy at the beginning of the burn out.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Where's initial timing? They like a ton with a big cam. 30 to 32 is about right for the total. I like how it jumps. lol
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Rusty, It's at 10-12 initial.
The dist. has 20 degrees all in at 2500 .
I just looked at the time slips, looks like ~ 4200 rpm in the lights.
So I need to take a good look at the shift light.
It does jump.
 
justinp61 said:
Stan, it sounds like it won't idle?
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It will idle, but not like I want it to.
I drilled two small holes in the primary blades to help that.
Now I have a little idle circuit adjustment that I didn't have before.
 
Demonracer said:
Stan, The first thing I see is that the burn out wasn't enough to get the tires good & hot. It also sounds a bit lazy at the beginning of the burn out.
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Yea, still working on the burnout, those Airheart disks won't hold it.
First burnout was in 1st gear, second was in 2nd gear.
I got too far out of the water and it started turning so I stopped.
If you look at the launch it goes right and that was because of the burnout.
But it still hooked and then dropped down.
There is a little black smoke right at the launch, not bad, just noticeable.
Yea, it slack. I pulled around 8 to 10 degrees out after changing the dist.
I am trying to get my electronic dist. on a machine.
Not super happy with the AVS, but it doesn't leak fuel.
From what I have read, its a little under 600 CFM.

With all those pedals, buttons, gages, it's still a little busy.
I will call you and we can talk.
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Charrlie_S said:
What RPM did you leave at? Sounded like a big bog, when you dropped the clutch. Might not be in the torque curve.
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Charrlie, maybe 3000-3500. Need to get that worked out.
I might (might) buy some dyno time.
In the old days I had a pretty good butt dyno.
 
Hyper_pak said:
Charrlie, maybe 3000-3500. Need to get that worked out.
I might (might) buy some dyno time.
In the old days I had a pretty good butt dyno.
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You might have to leave higher, to keep from bogging. Most stick slants I have seen/heard leave much higher RPM. My slants are comparatively milder, and I have the advantage of the torque multiplication from a converter. Depending on my engine/converter combo, I leave anywhere from 3200-4000 RPM
 
Someone posted on Instagram my old Barracuda.
Brought back a lot of great memories .
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Worked on the Weber carbs and drained the coolant.
Of course my shop supervisor had to QC the effort.
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Got the throttle blades, return spring lever, throttle shaft bearings back in the worst of my 3 Weber carbs. Takes a while to put them back together, but it's getting more familiar as I read and reassemble. Waiting on a few jets that I ordered.
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Stan, I'm running 20* initial timing on mine and it's a 100% street car. With the 250@ .050 camshaft, that's the initial it ended up liking the best. I can back it off to around 15* and it starts bogging and complaining. I have it limited to 30* total all in by about 2750.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Stan, I'm running 20* initial timing on mine and it's a 100% street car. With the 250@ .050 camshaft, that's the initial it ended up liking the best. I can back it off to around 15* and it starts bogging and complaining. I have it limited to 30* total all in by about 2750.
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The initial is around 12, hard to tell, I need a better light and to fix the tab.
I thought the dist had 20 degrees from when it was on a machine years ago.
I am still trying to find someone with a machine to map the advance just to be sure.
I will put a few more degrees initial back in before I go to Clay City in September.
 
Hyper_pak said:
The initial is around 12, hard to tell, I need a better light and to fix the tab.
I thought the dist had 20 degrees from when it was on a machine years ago.
I am still trying to find someone with a machine to map the advance just to be sure.
I will put a few more degrees initial back in before I go to Clay City in September.
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Be careful, because they normally don't like much more than about 32 total. I welded up the slots in mine to get only 10* mechanical advance.
 
RustyRatRod said:
What carburetors are those, Stan? 40? 45?
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They are 45's Rusty.
I have 40 chokes in them now and I am using a couple of different baseline settings.
I have a couple of friends running them and I have their numbers.
Worse thing is there are 6 of everything.
And yesterday I noticed the Clifford has a little warp on the carb flange.
So that is going to need a trip to the machine shop.
 
So the brass pile is just for "one", correct?
 
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