AJ/FormS
68 Formua-S fastback clone 367/A833/GVod/3.55s
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Good story about a bad situation!
If I'm understanding that right, I intentionally did that once, to add vacuum ports.
Slightly different, I added a vacuum advance port to a TQ that did not have one. On my first attempt I put it up a little high.oops, I fixed it.
On another one, an old Holley, I added a 4-corner idle to it. Well the passages were all there, I just had to put the discharge ports in, and figure out how to put fuel in the circuits.That 750 is still on my engine today.
When I first started experimenting, with adding idle-air to a big-cammed engine, to get the T-port sync worked out, I fabricated a device to add air to the PCV system. Then by calculating the area of the additional bypass air, I then could back-calculate the hole size for drilling twins through the T-blades.At that time, I was still stuck on leaving the factory ignition-timing more or less alone. As time went by,I learned that the factory timing wasn't even good for factory engines;even lawn mower engines have more initial timing than any SBM ever had. Of course, after that epiphany, the holes were no longer required.
Yeah so more rambling.......
If I'm understanding that right, I intentionally did that once, to add vacuum ports.
Slightly different, I added a vacuum advance port to a TQ that did not have one. On my first attempt I put it up a little high.oops, I fixed it.
On another one, an old Holley, I added a 4-corner idle to it. Well the passages were all there, I just had to put the discharge ports in, and figure out how to put fuel in the circuits.That 750 is still on my engine today.
When I first started experimenting, with adding idle-air to a big-cammed engine, to get the T-port sync worked out, I fabricated a device to add air to the PCV system. Then by calculating the area of the additional bypass air, I then could back-calculate the hole size for drilling twins through the T-blades.At that time, I was still stuck on leaving the factory ignition-timing more or less alone. As time went by,I learned that the factory timing wasn't even good for factory engines;even lawn mower engines have more initial timing than any SBM ever had. Of course, after that epiphany, the holes were no longer required.
Yeah so more rambling.......
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