Our "New" Car!

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and just to upset people even more bob
tell them that your back up girl is a mum of 2
gee im sweating
your a lucky man bob
did someone say M$%F arh never mind

[Doc Bob]

and just to upset people even more bob
tell them that your back up girl is a mum of 2
gee im sweating
your a lucky man bob
did someone say M$%F arh never mind

Too right there Paul

Mum of two, 30 Year Old and still getting top three placings in pretty much all her
modelling comps against many 17/18 year olds not even interested in children

[Doc Bob]

Anyrate..........lets get back on topic!

Finally cracked the shits with the 350 HOLLEY yesterday.
A simple combination with good fuel economy and reasonable power......but could not overcome the flat spot off idle
Put up with it for a while, but not good when you have the old vintage caravan on the back and you try and pull onto the highway
at 2000 rpm slipping the clutch to try and overcome the bog.
Got to the point where the Missus was a bit hesitant to drive it in case it stalled pulling out at an intersection.......especially with the kids in the car

So grabbed an old THOMAS CAIN 4 BBL intake and stole one of the 390 HOLLEY'S off the Gemini"s 4x2 Tunnel Ram.
Manifold was not 100% so I to Helicoiled the carb stud threads, drilled and tapped a point for the brake vacuum line and gave the whole shebang a good acid dip & robowash.

I fitted the 390 out with 585 metric jets and a 7.5 power valve.........though may change that once I do a vacuum test.
Set the mixture screws, throttle stops, float heights and cleaned out the emulsion tube ports. (390's only run single tubes in the front barrels Never knew that!)
Fabricated an alloy accelerator cable bracket and all went in quite straight forward.

OMG WOW
Turned it over and once the fuel hit the bowls she fired straight into life, and even though dead cold, idled like a dream.
Gave it a few stabs on the pedal while cold to see what would happen.........NO FLAT SPOT!

Took it for a quick blatt down the highway and was amazed by the throttle response, smoothness and power compared to the 350.
I keep hearing stories of blokes going to 4 Barrel's on their 6's and either having an absolute epiphany, or lots of trouble!
The trick is to picking the right carb and getting it tuned to your engine, I'm real happy this combination seems to suit the current engine/driveline.
Anyrate............I'm a happy little camper and would recommend that anyone toying with the idea of running the same set-up to give it a go.
Really makes a big difference, will just wait and see how the fuel economy side of things work out.

All the best.........Bob.

[WesternWagon]

Nice work mate

Gazza

[Doc Bob]

Nice work mate

Gazza

Cheers Gaz
Drove past your place yesterday.......but figured you'd be at work
Had to pull into the Ravo on the way home for a Jacks instead

Catch up again soon.

[Doc Bob]

*UPDATE* After a trip down south for the long weekend......still VERY impressed.
Before we left, swapped out the 585 metric jets for some stock 51's and ran a vacuum test to pick the right power valve.
17 inches at idle WOW. Wasn't really expecting that with the 4BBL/huge manifold/ PCV & Brake connections etc. on a tired old 186.
I was close with the 7.5 P.V but changed it out to an 8.5 as per standard HOLLEY calculations.

Certainly very crisp and pulls like a schoolboy from down low in the revs, but may have to muck around with the dizzy
as the advance rate is too slow once the vacuum drops under acceleration.
Might just drop the electronic jigger out of the HZ ute and see how close that wants to run

Fuel economy has been amazing....8.5 - 9 litres per 100 kms mixed town/highway, and 9.8 towing the Caravan at 110kph.

The journey continues...........................................

[Doc Bob]

BIG news on the car front guys................
We thinks the Gumbyment has been mucking around with our Petrol AGAIN!
Going through ALOT of dramas at work and home lately, and after talking to several blokes in the industry....engine rebuilders, dyno operators and Bike tuners......
evryone has been having the same problem.

We have spent a fair bit of time and research on this at Fiddy's and seem to have knocked the problem on the head, but there must be thousands of pre-injection car owners out there in West Oz going mental right now trying to get their engines to start/idle/run and stop backfiring

Seems the "Wait Awhile" state has been chosen once again as the Gumbyments isolated little Petri Dish to trial yet another change to the watered down shit they pass off as petrol these days.
If ya in W.A. and have been experiencing weird tuning issues with ya old Grey 6/Red 6/V8 or any pre 80's engine........shoot us a PM.

Will be interesting to see just how widespread this problem has become