Slow 1/8 with 74 440 dart

NoahSewal said
i street drive it every now and then so i went with the 3000-3500 stall and it flashes to 3000. i could withstand more stall on the street though as i'm not too bothered by it. thanks for the advice on the timing. not sure why it likes so much initial though. anything below 25 and it idles like crap. and obviously the idle just goes up all the way to 30 initial. i've messed with the carb a lot and it's not carb related. new plugs and wires has the same issue. i know these low vacuum mild lift big duration cams like timing but damn 30 surprised me. i triple checked to make sure the balancer wasn't slipped lol

With today's converter technology, you could put one in there that flashes to 5500 and will drive on the street like a stock converter. I know you don't need that high of a flash, it's just an example. Too many people choose a converter like we're still in the 1970s and that's a huge mistake with the converter technology we have available today. Used to be, the flash stall had an effect on cruise RPM. That's a thing of the past. Now you can ride around town with a 5500 stall and have it act like a stock converter at low RPM. As for the timing there are only two reasons for that much idle timing. Either there is a mistake reading it, whether you are reading it wrong, or there is something mechanical affoot like a slipped or mis marked balancer, OR it has low compression. Have you run a compression test to see what kind of cylinder pressure it has? Those figures, coupled with the known camshaft and you can make a really good guess where the static compression is.