Austin Barnett
New Member
I've got this wonderful issue that has been present ever since I purchased the car 2 years ago, and I'm getting quite sick of it. Holley 7366 Smogerator. Car will fall flat on it's face when you give it anywhere from 10%-80% throttle coming from a stop, and regularly stalls when I go to leave any stop sign/intersection. And it will also act funky when giving part throttle trying to accelerate at all speeds. Give her the beans, and she'll scream away all the way to 50mph thanks to the wonderful 2.76 rear end. But part throttle? Wants nothing to do with it unless you're already cruising. We rebuilt the carb after purchase, and have been through it an additional 4 times now, trying to figure out what the problem is. Accel pump is shooting damn good adjusted to factory specs. Float level has been set. New fuel pump. Ignition module was replaced so I could drive the car home when I bought it. Cold, hot, dry, wet, it doesn't matter, it's never happy trying to accelerate on part throttle. The power valve piston/cylinder looks good, not too loose, not binding up. All the ports look good, we cleaned out every passage thoroughly. Can't figure it out for the life of me. Got great vacuum at idle, 26in. Timing is set to factory spec. If I'm a moron please let me know, with every day I aspire to become just that much less stupid! I'm at the point I'll swap a 4bbl carb/intake if I can't get this figured out, but I know if I get to the point of putting those in, a new cam/lifters would be so easy! I try to avoid the project creep when possible haha.