Yesterday, I flew out to Denver to drive and secure the light blue Dart you see in my avatar. It was unbelievably slow. Like, wow, this thing tops out at 70 mph slow, and takes its time getting there.
It is a recently rebuilt 273 with a recently rebuilt 2 barrel carb with a 904 tranny and 2.94 one-wheel 7-1/4 rear.
The gas pedal was hard to depress, and I noticed what looked like new linkage and springs from pedal to carb, so I suspect there is something in the linkage or return spring strength that is holding this car back. It runs wonderful, but just is very slow to get going and tops out at too low a mph. The car runs too well, and everything else about it what was I wanted, so I bought it knowing I can always add performance
The car will be delivered to me in a week or so, and I can dig into it more then - but I wanted to lay this out to the knowledgable and see if there would be anything else I should be looking for, or maybe what type of "performance" I should expect from a 273-2.
Thank you in advance for your thoughts
It is a recently rebuilt 273 with a recently rebuilt 2 barrel carb with a 904 tranny and 2.94 one-wheel 7-1/4 rear.
The gas pedal was hard to depress, and I noticed what looked like new linkage and springs from pedal to carb, so I suspect there is something in the linkage or return spring strength that is holding this car back. It runs wonderful, but just is very slow to get going and tops out at too low a mph. The car runs too well, and everything else about it what was I wanted, so I bought it knowing I can always add performance
The car will be delivered to me in a week or so, and I can dig into it more then - but I wanted to lay this out to the knowledgable and see if there would be anything else I should be looking for, or maybe what type of "performance" I should expect from a 273-2.
Thank you in advance for your thoughts