Cool Dave’s 1973 Dodge D100 Club Cab
Minor updates..
Bumped initial timing up a couple degrees, all-in mechanical is now hitting 30-31 degrees.
So at this point it’s getting to a point where I feel I can start to tinker on improving things and fine-tuning stuff rather than just getting it to a consistent state. Bearing that in mind my first move was a new tach since my factory one does not work and I figured it would also be beneficial for further tweaking on timing, idle etc.
I grabbed a universal 2.5” tach from the local parts store, it’s a hair too small so I had to mess with it for a while getting a setup together to make it fit the factory hole properly. It still need some fine tuning but functional for now..
So my idle in park sits right around 1000 after the choke has finished backing off. In gear it drops to closer to 500rpm and seemed to have a little miss to it so I think I’m going to bump it up 100-200rpm.
While I was tinkering on wiring I was also joined by, I guess, a neighborhood cat..
Super friendly cat, seen it a couple of times now so my wife named it Maggie. Got to admit I’m happy to have another mouser around with how much the truck and my Mustang sit idle!
Minor updates..
Bumped initial timing up a couple degrees, all-in mechanical is now hitting 30-31 degrees.
So at this point it’s getting to a point where I feel I can start to tinker on improving things and fine-tuning stuff rather than just getting it to a consistent state. Bearing that in mind my first move was a new tach since my factory one does not work and I figured it would also be beneficial for further tweaking on timing, idle etc.
I grabbed a universal 2.5” tach from the local parts store, it’s a hair too small so I had to mess with it for a while getting a setup together to make it fit the factory hole properly. It still need some fine tuning but functional for now..
So my idle in park sits right around 1000 after the choke has finished backing off. In gear it drops to closer to 500rpm and seemed to have a little miss to it so I think I’m going to bump it up 100-200rpm.
While I was tinkering on wiring I was also joined by, I guess, a neighborhood cat..
Super friendly cat, seen it a couple of times now so my wife named it Maggie. Got to admit I’m happy to have another mouser around with how much the truck and my Mustang sit idle!
