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Originally Posted by olddog
So it is has never been perfectly tuned. Now you may have had the engine, as it exists, tuned to its best possible state.
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No argument there, but I spec'd my engine to be quite similar to the 1963ish engines -- for good and for bad. My cam is, arguably, 50 years behind the curve and, of course, no vacuum advance is exactly like it sounds, no advance. My carb is another item that is pretty much the same as Ford would slap on 50+ years ago. C'mon, who puts in a SFT cam nowadays? Especially one that was spec'd decades ago? But the sound, smell, and feel of it simply can't be beat -- even if I left 50 horses and 5 mpg on the table (maybe more?). And she is tuned to her own level of perfection -- she is as "perfect" as perfect can get when you are talking basically old-style stuff. No EFI, no hydraulic cam, no roller cam, no triple circuit carb, none of that. OK, she does have a MSD, and that was my nod to the 21st century -- but you can't see it unless you look up over the passenger's feet.
