Performance Engineering

[ChicagoChris]

Gun Doc>glad to hear PE has reached out and I'm hoping you have a better outcome than I did. Pls keep us posted.

I also believe PE used to build 427 Genesis crate engines too?
Anyone have one of those in their machine?

[Gun Doc]

Ed,

I bought a complete turn-key engine. You can see in the attached photo just how the engine was delived to Vintage. Notice the linkage on the Webers, it runs from the left-rear carb to the right-rear carb. The front-left carb "drove" all off the remaning carbs, causing them to bind. It also caused a "lag" in the other barrels opening.

Gun Doc

[itstock]

1000 miles, with poor tuning pretty much the entire time will wreak havoc on any engine.

And even weber owners that have had them for years constantly have problems with them. While I'm not making an excuse for PE since it was delivered untuned, you should not have driven it for 1000 miles while running excessively rich and untuned.

There are also MANY problems with the dizzy gears that seem to be from all builders.

[Gun Doc]

Itstock,

I agree that poor tuning will ruin an engine...Problem is it SHOULD have been tuned when delivered! I lived in Texas, PE is in Ohio and the car was built in Connecticut. I also don't agree that Webers have to be constantly adjusted, or tuned. Once they are set, they should stay that way unless there is a change in altitude, or the linkage is not correct. All carbs work under the same basic principles to mix air and fuel. Webers are just more “fine tunable” than most carbs. A properly matched and installed dizzy gear should NOT fail with less than 5000 miles on it. Of all the cars I’ve owned (a number of them hotrods) I have never had a dizzy gear fail until now.