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It’s embarrassing to say but after checking through nearly everything and basically installing a whole new electrical ignition I found that the spark plugs were fouled which also lead me to see that my dad installed the external ballast resistor upside down 40 years ago, so the 5 ohms side was...

I have no idea what the fuel pressure is, I can tell you the pump was installed in the 80s so it’s probably time for a new one anyway. I wanna stay electric if I can, do you have any recommendations and what psi should I be running?

I would have my curb idle screw in really far before opening the secondaries so I opened them up to turn the idle down without stalling the car, that’s what made me think it just needed more o2 so I drilled 1/8 holes in the throttle plates but that didn’t necessarily help at all, so now I’m...

I did rebuild the carb in April and it was a rebuilt kit for the Holley 1850 vacuum secondaries so the power valve is just whatever comes stock which I’m not sure but I have backfired out of the carb since then but I had the carb off last week and the power valve looked okay

Idk what the specs are on the cam all I know is my dad installed it in the 80s, I’ll have to dig through all the documentation to find out all I know is that it was called a hemi street performance cam? And no I haven’t used that gauge, I should make that investment. What ratio am I looking for...

The slots aren’t visible under the butterfly’s when closed, I haven’t had luck keeping the car running with them just visible from the underside of the carb however this might just be an insane balancing act I have to perform

Passenger side is good, driver side has a hole in the headers that I patched other than that it’s all good

Vacuum drops from 15in in park to about 8in until it eventually cuts out completely

15in of hg but idle is at 12-1300 rpm from the open secondaries, once I go in gear I drop to 800 rpm and 5in of hg I tried screwing in the curb idle and closing the secondaries some but it stalls immediately with curb idle screwed in a small amount (about 1-1.5 turns)

No I haven’t yet and I was trying to play around with it but I need someone to hold the break in gear to check the vacuum while I adjust, that’ll be the next thing I try

I hate to say it but my highest vacuum is about two turns out I’m worried about fouling my spark plugs or is it okay to run like that??

Hey all, I got a 318 with 340 heads, a Holley 1850 600cfm and hemi street performance cam and I’ve never been able to lean it out. The car runs super rich with the idle mixture screws out a turn and a half. The driver side screw is a bit wobbly and doesn’t respond like the passenger side screw...

The power to the coil in the run position is about 2V, is that normal? I’m new to this

I can confirm it’s not the ballast resistor or the ignition switch, I gotta do a deep check on connections but from what I can see everything looks good, is it possible that the old spark plug wires are the problem? They are from 1977

I can confirm now that it’s not the ballast resistor or the ignition switch :( this is a good suggestion, thank you! I did not switch the floats out when I did a rebuild but when I check my float level from the sight plug it’s good. So is it possible that a problem could occur from the minute...