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Billy Nees · 08-18-2015, 04:20 PM

Geez, talk about ungrateful cars! I brought it home from Cecil 2 years ago and parked it in the field and when I went to use it, I had to put a new battery AND spark plugs in it! But, now that I think about it, the battery and plugs weren't new 2 years ago when I put them in.
At any rate, I had an "NHRA Newbie" in the car this weekend. Wayne is one of those fast street car guys so he's no stranger to racing, just to NHRA racing. The car seemed to like the headers and the dammed carb for the first 1/8th of the track but no matter how I jetted it it didn't want to run in high gear. I think that I'm getting into some kind of a float-drop issue(for lack of a better term) when it gets into high gear. It's not running out of gas but it's going dead lean to the point of lean misfiring. The 60' and 1/8th times were pretty good but no matter what I did, it was off at least 6 MPH. For the 1st rd, I raised the float much too high and it just didn't go anywhere.
Oh well, back to the drawing board!

08-18-2015, 04:20 PM	#344
Billy Nees VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: On a hilltop in Pa. Posts: 4,218 Likes: 3,091 Liked 6,772 Times in 1,519 Posts	Re: Under the index for under a grand! Geez, talk about ungrateful cars! I brought it home from Cecil 2 years ago and parked it in the field and when I went to use it, I had to put a new battery AND spark plugs in it! But, now that I think about it, the battery and plugs weren't new 2 years ago when I put them in. At any rate, I had an "NHRA Newbie" in the car this weekend. Wayne is one of those fast street car guys so he's no stranger to racing, just to NHRA racing. The car seemed to like the headers and the dammed carb for the first 1/8th of the track but no matter how I jetted it it didn't want to run in high gear. I think that I'm getting into some kind of a float-drop issue(for lack of a better term) when it gets into high gear. It's not running out of gas but it's going dead lean to the point of lean misfiring. The 60' and 1/8th times were pretty good but no matter what I did, it was off at least 6 MPH. For the 1st rd, I raised the float much too high and it just didn't go anywhere. Oh well, back to the drawing board! __________________ Billy Nees 1188 STK, SS Make tech "TECH" again!