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Listed on Ebay: eBay Motors: SBC Holley Street Dominator Intake (Chevy Small Block) (item 320357359383 end time Apr-12-09 18:46:05 PDT)

Installed a new set of Edelbrock Performer RPM heads with crane roller rocker arms and now I have a distinct chtt chtt chtt chtt sound coming from one cylinder. The sound goes away if I disconnect the spark plug wire to that cylinder. Any ideas? Could the valve lash be adjusted improperly on...

That's exactly what mine did. Car had no power and then the next day it cranks right up. I drove it some more, not knowing what the problem was and then it left me stranded on the road one night with no power, no lights. It'd be best to replace the links....they're put there to prevent damage...

I've got a 75 and had a similar problem last year. I had a burnt wire below the power brake booster on the drivers side (in the engine bay) where the wiring harness plugs into the firewall. Shine a flashlight down there and see if everything looks good. Mine was either a orange or red wire...

I'd love to, but I want to save some fun for later. I'd like to run a really aggressive cam with the new heads which will require a new intake and higher stall torque converter.

I've been wanting aluminum heads for a long time so this was the perfect excuse. I just ordered a set of Edelbrock Performer RPM aluminum heads (64cc chambers) and a new set of crane cams 1.6 full roller rockers :thumb Hopefully this will give me enough extra power to burn out the tires...

Had a chance to pull the valves this afternoon. The valves are from left to right from cylinders 8 6 4 2: Again 8 is the cylinder I had the low compression reading on. I had oil on my hands that I got on the edges of the valve that looks burnt. Valves on 8 were pretty loose about 2 or...

The heater core leaked pretty bad after I first bought the car. Maybe the guy was trying to plug that. The water pump and thermostat also went out shortly after. I had a chance to pull the head this afternoon. The head gasket seemed to be in really good shape but tell me if anything looks...

Thanks for the replies! You guys are correct that the car did have over heating issues at one point. When I first bought the car the temp would climb on road trips. I finally determined that I had a faulty fan clutch that wasn't disengaging. You guys are also correct that the heads haven't...

What is the purpose of the 2 smaller square holes in the heads (one of which is plugged on both heads)? The 4 larger rectangular holes allow air and gas to enter from the intake manifold correct?

If it helps at all, it has a "crusty" or gritty feel to it. I'm interested to see what the head gaskets look like. I poked a screwdriver through it and it's only about 1/4" thick of buildup.

The car was running bad the other day so I did a compression test and found that the #8 cylinder had a compression reading of only 30. Every other cylinder was 150-155. So I decided to pull the head to see if I had a burnt valve and after pulling the intake I found this. What's causing...

anyone have a good wiring diagram they could send me showing ground locations?

This morning when I started the vette up (dark outside) I turned on the headlights and my small gauge cluster lights were pulsing and my stereo was randomly turning off and on (I tapped into the cig lighter power for the stereo power during the original install 2 years ago). Then after a few...

thanks for the comments guys. I think I've got things in order now. One problem I had with the choke was that the choke lever was hitting my air cleaner just enough to keep it from opening and closing smoothly. The other thing was some of the pivot points were gummed up. After modifying the...

Checked the tuning this weekend and found that it was 3.5 turns out on one side and 1.25 turns out on the other. I got it running better after resetting to closer to 2 turns out on both sides. I also found another issue with the carb......I noticed the fast idle lever on the holley carb won't...

Thanks for the replies fellas. I'll spend some time this saturday checking out your recommendations. It'd probably make sense for me to check the tuning on the Holley carb also. How would I go about resetting the idle mixture screws? I read that one idea is to screw both all the way in and...

Car is acting weird lately. Can't keep the carb tuned. Car will idle and run fine and then get progressively worse after driving for 10-15 miles. The car will also miss out randomly, and more consistently around 3k rpms. The car will idle up an extra 5k rpms by pumping the brake several...

@ 3k rpms the gauge reads exactly 3 psi with no fluctuation. It'll fluctuate from 6k-7k (at idle) when the engine in cold and then 3k-4k (at idle) once the engine has warmed.

thanks for the quick reply. I'm not sure how it works at 3000 rpm...but I'll check it out tomorrow. Shouldn't the pressure be closer to 6k or 7k rpms?