Today i got to work on one of these

[CAP1]

Good thing that car wasn't 2 years newer sporting a E4MC or E4ME carb or it would have gotten a lot more interesting.

which car? the cadi?

 bogjets are easy.

[CAP1]

dayum! they must've charged you double in a parking garage.

[PFactorDave]

Gotta love an engine that you don't need a computer to work on.  I miss the days of carb tuning and setting points gap.  Good times.

[CAP1]

Gotta love an engine that you don't need a computer to work on.  I miss the days of carb tuning and setting points gap.  Good times.

yea....and i had to dust off my timing light. 

[SFRT - Frenchy]

No I don't have the lean burn thingy, that I know of anyway. It's just a chrysler 360. I had 25 MPG when it was spitting oil with a 2BB carb. Now that I rebuilt the engine and put a Edelbrock manifold with a 4BB carb, I wonder if I ll get better or worse. I ll find out sunday as I will fill her up again, ive been driving all week on that 20gal tank. I drive 65-70, I'm always easy on the throttle at the red light anyway, never understood the ' pedal smashers', so hard on your car and so unnecessary. cept if you got some fun car to drive off course.





 So Rebuilt engine, rebuilt 727, I'm hunting down a repetitive vibration which I think comes from my tq converter. Then ill tackle the interior/body work/vinyl to match the nose/engine bay I already painted.

[KgB]

I was replacing cracked exhaust  manifold on 1979 Olds something something. First thing i noticed there was no gasket, brilliant! Second, bolts were in better shape than  in modern two year old car.

[CAP1]

I was replacing cracked exhaust  manifold on 1979 Olds something something. First thing i noticed there was no gasket, brilliant! Second, bolts were in better shape than  in modern two year old car.

old gm's were pretty good for that. 70's fords.....not so good, 'specially the big blocks, and the "FE" blocks. they had gaskets that tended to blow out. then the best part, was that the hardest to reach bolts would break, 'cause they were rusted in, and partially rusted through.

[CAP1]

No I don't have the lean burn thingy, that I know of anyway. It's just a chrysler 360. I had 25 MPG when it was spitting oil with a 2BB carb. Now that I rebuilt the engine and put a Edelbrock manifold with a 4BB carb, I wonder if I ll get better or worse. I ll find out sunday as I will fill her up again, ive been driving all week on that 20gal tank. I drive 65-70, I'm always easy on the throttle at the red light anyway, never understood the ' pedal smashers', so hard on your car and so unnecessary. cept if you got some fun car to drive off course.

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 So Rebuilt engine, rebuilt 727, I'm hunting down a repetitive vibration which I think comes from my tq converter. Then ill tackle the interior/body work/vinyl to match the nose/engine bay I already painted.

 i think....not sure..but i think you'll get better mileage with the 4bbl, if all else goes unchanged. 

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Well I had to go 4BB because the 2 BB would not fit the Edel intake, and I had to change the intake because the original one was such in apoor shape. It's the one with the early egr, there's a chamber inside the top of the intake where the exhaust gas go in, and there's two little tunnels going straight up to the base of the carb. Clever, but after 30 plus years, the thing was so clogged with charcoal deposit that it blew that chamber plate inside the lifter valey. I tried to save it by cleaning everything and rivetting a new base pate, but I had to much intake leak between the heads and the intake anyway. I junked it.

[icepac]

which car? the cadi?

 bogjets are easy.

I got one to flow over 900 cfm in 1981.

They are great carbs and I especially like the computer controlled feedback loop quadrajets.

[CAP1]

I got one to flow over 900 cfm in 1981.

They are great carbs and I especially like the computer controlled feedback loop quadrajets.

 the feedback versions drove me nuts at first. for whatever reason, i couldn't figure those dam things out. then something just seemed to "click" one day, and i never had a problem with them again.
 i've never hot rodded one of them though. always kept them stock. if i was hot rodding anything, i always used either holleys or carters. now if i hot rod something......no carbs at all. fi all the way.

[Reaper90]

This was very, very, very close to being my first car, but in a light metallic blue, primer, and rust color....



'71 Caddy El Dorado convert.....

Instead I wound up with a Triumph Spitfire! From Land Yacht to English go-cart!

As much as I loved my Spitfire, and the 5 other Spitfires and GT6's that followed, there's a BIG part of me that wishes I could have had that Caddy.... or have it today! Just not to drive, tho.... with $3.45/gal gas!

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No I don't have the lean burn thingy, that I know of anyway. It's just a chrysler 360. I had 25 MPG when it was spitting oil with a 2BB carb. Now that I rebuilt the engine and put a Edelbrock manifold with a 4BB carb, I wonder if I ll get better or worse. I ll find out sunday as I will fill her up again, ive been driving all week on that 20gal tank. I drive 65-70, I'm always easy on the throttle at the red light anyway, never understood the ' pedal smashers', so hard on your car and so unnecessary. cept if you got some fun car to drive off course.

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 So Rebuilt engine, rebuilt 727, I'm hunting down a repetitive vibration which I think comes from my tq converter. Then ill tackle the interior/body work/vinyl to match the nose/engine bay I already painted.

360 right?

put that engine and tranny in an old duster

[CAP1]

This was very, very, very close to being my first car, but in a light metallic blue, primer, and rust color....

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'71 Caddy El Dorado convert.....

Instead I wound up with a Triumph Spitfire! From Land Yacht to English go-cart!

As much as I loved my Spitfire, and the 5 other Spitfires and GT6's that followed, there's a BIG part of me that wishes I could have had that Caddy.... or have it today! Just not to drive, tho.... with $3.45/gal gas!

wrong color, but know what movie that pic just made me think of? and it was on last night? 

 undercover brother. and that was one friggin FUNNY movie.