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I use 4s in my all iron 455 Pontiac engine & also use 4s in a 487 Ponty stroker that has alum heads. I think next after using carbs that are too big....comes using plugs that are too cold.
Torker intake is not doing you any favours. An Edel Performer or factory intake would liven up the bottom end, might be enough even with low comp ratio, to satisfy you.
The carb on this engine is an Edel. It doesn't have a diaphragm....
You need to find somebody who KNOWS these engines because you are dealing with an unknown quantity.
They would check things like carb float level, ign timing, lifter pre-load, vacuum leak, PCV operation, etc. Those are basics...
THAT is a punch to the gut.
In the first 3 1/2 years that I owned this car:
It went from this:
...To this :
.....But back then, I didn't have so many distractions!
Remember what I wrote about a man with ONE watch? Back then, that is essentially what I had. Now I have more watches than...
In my red car, for 6 years I ran a front disc, rear drum setup with an A body single diaphragm booster. The brakes worked pretty good but I didn't like how the tiny 10" drums looked through the big spokes of the rear wheels so I swapped in 11.7" disc brakes.
The change to rear discs did not...