318 timing chain.....and why the engine should come out.

Yeah.....I ran bbds back to back.
When I built it. It worked pretty good....just pretty good. I was never completely happy with it. It was hard to tune and that was part of the running rich was getting it to tune well.

The are 285 cfm per carb and the back one is not really friendly to tuning. They are both progressive carburetors.

The front one is a later high top bbd and shares edelbrock jets. If I ever put it back on. I will jet it how it’s supposed to be and do it with a wide band. I’ve looked into running it again.

It had a fuel leak on the inlet so I took it off and ran a Holley 600.
That carb was way out of wack and had several adjustments that were just wrong. It was jetted down 2 from stock...the pump cam was undersized and the vacuum secondary was open about 1/16”.
Took a while to sort through all of that and a learning curve.

Follow that with a worn points distributor with a worn rubbing block and you have basically a car with problems in a few directions. I got the distributor problem fixed.....then went to the carb and got that all sorted out.

Finally total timed it and was not happy with how much the balancer was moving. ......I put a piston stop in to check it and decided to run a double roller and it has gone downhill from there.

Cracked torque converter and bushing as you saw in the other post.
I won’t go too far with all of this. The car is very very solid as it was a California car underneath but needs a new roof due to vinyl top....stupid idea......

some lower quarters....a paint job and a completely new interior. It needs a lot of work and it will still be a slant 6 car that originally came with literally zero options. It was as basic as it gets. It was meant to be a parts car for a circle track racer and they said they were going to strip it and eventually crush it. I bought it for $500 and put it back on the road. It needs about $6000 for me to restore it and will be done over time.
A while back....a buddy of mine had a 76 charger he was gonna crush....so he gave me this engine as it didn’t have one sitting in it for about 6 months. I was looking for a small block anyway and had already converted it over with that used cross member........

So we threw the engine in there untouched to kind of mock it up and get all the right hardware.....like the correct kickdown rod and just to make sure it all went smooth. ....make sure everything fit and ran right.....stuff like the speedometer and shift linkage as it was converted to console car. Things like that. That’s why it literally looks like hell. It was sanded in the surface rust areas and spray painted to protect the metal over the years....this worked

I started a family and let it sit in the shop for ten years like that...
The engine was never really meant to stay in there in its worn condition. It was going to get running and everything working....all the bugs worked out. Then take the car all the way down restore a complete and operational car.....so that little repair work would be needed to be done after the fact.
None of that went right and the divorce took a toll financially I lost the shop and the house.........so now I’m just getting it back to a running and driving car as cheap as I can to make it reliable

The other stuff will just take more time.