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Cranking voltage WAY too low! Keep that battery on a tender. Check your grounds. If voltage is too low, it will take a TON of fuel to light off.

Sounds like you figured it out.

^^^^ whoops!

Roots blower. Buddy just made 1258 lb/ft of torque at the rear wheels on this street car. It runs 8.40's

I installed an AEM wideband HEGO with datalogging ($320) and boy did it help me dial in the part throttle on my blower car. I had it close on WOT but way too rich at cruise. It also has failsafes you can set if you lose fuel pressure. REALLY handy! After tuning I now get 11mpg and that is with...

Wear eye protection when working on anything compressed!

TDC on compression stroke, compressed air in the cylinder. SPARK PLUGS IN the OTHER HOLES so the engine does not rotate from the compressed air. I take a hardened socket the same size as the retainer and whack it with a hammer so it pops the valve open and closed. Then I use a LEVER type...

130 is pretty low and it is not the seat pressure that will wipe the cam, it is the over the nose pressure!

You are very honest. Everyone else would say it run's 5's in the eighth. LOL you know what I am talking about. :)

WOW, your car does not know it has a small block in it! You must be running a lot of convertor. Front end is limited so you are hitting the tires HARD. Impressive.

Exactly! Here's the deal... after watching cars being thrashed in the pits at the dragstrip in the dirt, NOTHING being torqued, nobody running air cleaners... I started to wonder if all this stress we put on ourselves trying to make everything clean and perfect even matters!

I had a small block years ago that ran great. Even ran it at the track a few times. Tore it down and it had two completely different heads on it! Different valves sizes and combustion chambers. It idled so smooth your would never know.

Man, I read the first post in this thread this morning for the first time and yelled a word I haven't said in years! LOL. Then I when I saw the mph... YUP!

I remember when I got my 440 that was built by an engine shop back around 1988. I was told it had floating pins and when I tore it down it sure did.... steel on steel with no bushings! LOL loose as a goose too after 100 passes. Not how I would do it but it did work. For me, floating pins are...