Some new Clues! - Finally figuring this out!!!! LOOK!

[BIGREDRASA]

One more thing, if you still have the dizzy for an automatic, it can probably stand some recurving. You might be able to play with it yourself, by checking spring and vacuum advance part numbers of manual vs. auto dizzies.
Wish I'd had a chance to visit when I was in Atlanta last week. I wanted to hear that bad boy run.

 

[Anonymous]

If I had known you were in town I would have come out... (you know I live in downtown ATL not all the way out at my dads house...)


I really think things will improve once I pull the manifold and get everything sealed up with Ultra Copper... should be much improved, at the very least this will eliminate my manifold as the source of trouble, and it is the easiest thing to change on the engine.


Now if I did not have to cut these gaskets, that will take the most time.

OH YEAH...
as far as the gaskets go, should I make the openings for the intake runners as close as possible to actual size, or is slightly larger than existing OK? I would assume they CANNOT be smaller or have a lip anywhere right?

and my plan is to run a small film of the copper sealant with maybe a small 1/8" gap around the edges of the intake, so when it is compressed it does not squirt out anywhere, and I mean a small film of sealant... both sides just enough to seal the seam not squirt out too much.

I was liberal with it on the exhaust manifold and coolant areas, but I think less and thin even is the ticket for this one!

and should I seal the threads on the bolts, and what torque rating for an aussie 2v intake?

guess it is better to ask now than later....

 

[Anonymous]

One more thing, if you still have the dizzy for an automatic, it can probably stand some recurving. You might be able to play with it yourself, by checking spring and vacuum advance part numbers of manual vs. auto dizzies.
Wish I'd had a chance to visit when I was in Atlanta last week. I wanted to hear that bad boy run.

RED, you are hitting my thoughts lately, seems to me the engine is acting like an automatic, it wants to shift at lower rpms, likes nothing above 3000 rpms for any duration, and comes back down from shifts slowly. If I shift off the gears at 2500 rpms it drives great, if I push it up into the high range it gives me nothing. sounds like a dang jet sometimes with a little vacume cleaner thrown in.
I know I am over advance with the vacume, so I have been trying to drive nicely till I can figure this out, can't I just go in and get a dizzy for a manual... or are they all really the same aftermarket? seems to me they never asked about the tranny when I bought this one?

but the leak, plus the curve are my real problem, I have had a mechanic tell me the same thing recently... he said spend a few hundred and dyno it now to get it close, then if I have to put it up for an hour or two next year and re-check things, so what... said the five hundred bucks or so would go a long way and I think I agree, so I may just get some additional jets, and once the manifold is changed and the idle problem is stopped I can get my hands on some tune up stuff then...

I would have loved have gotten you under this hood for a bit and see what you thought... oh well next time huh!

Jim