Tuning

[Dan the man]

Dan, you've been saying that for the 3.5 years that I've been on A bodies. For everyone's sake... I sure hope that this is the one!!

Me too, believe me

 

[Newbomb Turk]

Me too, believe me

Hopefully the weather behaves. We aren’t anywhere near out of winter yet.

 

[fishmens67]

I know very little about doing this properly. When I was a teenager I used a timing light, vacuum gauge, tach-dwell meter, feeler gauge as that's all my dad had. What other tools do I need? A good assortment of carburetor jets? What can be done with the ignition system for performance tuning?

 

[Mean416]

Ok, I'll take the bait. You don't need to write a book about this it's actually extremely simple. Sure there's advanced tuning for the racers. But for your basic street deal, it's not so complicated.

Step 1, if the engine is broken you have to fix it.

Step 2, once your hotrod parts are installed there's really only a couple things you can play with. Fuel and timing.

Step 3, get the distributor set up so it produces a performance advance curve. Get the timing set correctly. Google that part.

Step 4. Set up the carb so it's making a good afr ratio to your tastes. Google that part for your carb or EFI combo.

Go back and forth between step 3 and 4.

That's pretty much it. If it's slow you have the wrong parts. Orrrr....you started with a 318

 

[340six]

Hopefully the weather behaves. We aren’t anywhere near out of winter yet.

That's Hell freezing over because Dan may really be buying a car. It has to get really bad for that to happen, and we are getting the outer edge of that.