revherbel
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Ok, so I've completed my conversion. Later this fall I'll start my series of posts over at herbelgarage.wordpress.com for it (and wait 'til you see the nice stainless steel bracket for running the throttle and kickdown cables over the valve cover). I got it to idle fine in park but when in gear it is rough. I noticed tranny fluid in one of the modulator vacuum lines so I have a new one on the way. That said, it does run rich. I set the float to the lowest on the chart, which I think was a 66 289 (incidentally that's what the carb is off of). That helped, but still wondering about it all. The jets are 50F. What are others running and/or recommending? Currently the cam is stock. The head was planed .075 per the Ford Falcon Handbook, to make up for the gasket and get compression back to stock or maybe a tad more (the head is a 1980). I also put in higher ratio rockers and had a 30 degree cut on the valves. I'm running dual outlet headers into a Y pipe.