Sort of a non-report: I put the new distributor in (straight replacement of the MSD 8495) and fitted it with the 18* stop and two blue springs beforehand. Showed my son how difficult it can be to get a disto to drop in over the
oil pump shaft
, started right up, timed it to 18* initial and 36* total.
(Left the garage door open a crack to vent it overnight, got up to little damp cat footprints all over the car... arrgh. Neighbor's cat, very nice but nosey.)
I also finished fitting the new AC - long oval with a K&N. Drove the combination for a while. Decent, still some hesitation early in the takeoff curve, smells a little rich even after warmup. Thought I heard some detonation on a couple of hard pulls.
I don't have the freakin' carb parts because a FedEx delivery stamped DELIVERED was not - they're tracking it down. And now rain is moving in for the weekend, so my road testing is done for the short term. If I get the parts and the weather clears, I can adjust the secondary spring and try the bigger squirters. I suspect I need to redo the baseline idle mix tune with the new air cleaner setup as well.
So: other than the richer mix after vacuum tuning, nothing has made much difference on the off-idle bog. Will need to get all the tuning parts, wait for clear weather, and start pretty much from scratch.
Meantime there's the front and rear suspension to look over...
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