Improving acceleration using 2bbl Carburetor?

slantsixdan said
Look at post № 11 in this thread (on the first page). Wherever you see boldface, blue type, that's a clickable link. Click it to go to the information it represents. As you are new to all this, as soon as you can, get the three books listed in this thread.

Wise. See this thread about that.

Note there is nothing such as a 270 Slant-6. "270" is the model series of your Dart. The 170 was the basic/low-trim series. The 270 was the high-trim series. The GT was the premium series. It's a little confusing because the standard-equipment engine was a 170 cubic inch Slant-6, but any Dart model could be had with any of the available engines. Your engine is either a 170 or a 225 Slant-6. Look at the driver's side of the engine block, below/behind the manifolds. What casting numbers do you see?

Interesting. I assumed the 170 came with the 170 ci engine and the 270 came with the 225 ci. I shall check and see what casting numbers are there.

Edit: I have a CD version of the FSM purchased from moparmanuals that the previous owner gave to me. It blows my mind how much info and procedure for everything is in there. I will get those other two books as well. I also read your other link. Excellent information and gave me some ideas of where to focus attention. I'm currently dealing with a number of various things about the car and trying to prioritize (suspension, tune-up, carburetor issues, interior, etc etc) but you've provided links and reasoning behind a lot of decision to be made. I got three point seatbelts in and don't know how I was comfortable driving without them for so many months.

I do, however, have some questions about the HEI conversion. I read your entire post. Is the HEI ignition more reliable than points and condensers? Does it result in more power? I see that you mention it has more complete combustion, so I expect it does see a power benefit.