EdM
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- Jun 5, 2014
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- My Car
- 1973 Mach 1 Q code, a 427 Dart based Windsor, Pro Flo 4, Tremec 5 speed, A/C, 12.7:1 steering conversion, SoT coil over and Dakota Digital dash.
Today my 16 year old son (he is getting hooked and his smaller hand do come in handy) and I finished installing a Quickfuel 680 CFM vacuum secondary carb in place of the 750 Holley double pumper that the car came with. The throttle response of the new carb is much, much better and it pulls hard right to 5000 rpm. Cruising at 65 requires just a light touch on the peddle and the car just smoothly hums there. A bit of a pisser with the install though as the bowl to metering block gasket on the primary side leaked like a sieve on start-up, this with a brand new carb. Swapped in a new gasket (the leakage path was quite apparent) and all was good. Still need to run it a far bit more but so far I am more than pleased. Next install will be the Mallory 6AL box and coil (it has a Unilite distributor) but likely not until I arrive back home on Christmas day. I head back to Korea on Sunday and just want to enjoy driving the car between then and now.