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Below is a chart that Carter provided for fuel pressure v needle & seat size. It also works for Edel AFB/AVS cabs because Edel copied the Carter fuel delivery system without making any changes.

The Nichrome wire gets brittle from the hot/cold cycles it goes through in operation. An analogy is a fuse that is run close to it's rated value. The wire gets hot & it eventually breaks....it does not blow from a current surge. It fails from metal fatigue. The Nichrome wire is wound on a...

I suspect you would have blue smoke from the exhaust if excessive oil was getting into the combustion chamber.

Hysteric, Post #66....comes from NGK. You obviously know little about spark generation. Production cars used carbon string high tension leads, often with a resistance as high as 30,000 ohms. Then they had the series resistance of the rotor tip gap ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNND the series...

If you are going to run 8 psi, you should probably lower the float level slightly [ 0.030" ]. Raising fuel pressure increases the fuel level.

Finally, Hysteric, you did something right...... lean mixtures need more timing, which is why when cam overlap increases, the mixture is diluted [ leaned out ] at lower rpms by exh dilution...& requires more timing. Many years ago, Champion had a spark plug series called the U series that had a...

Here is the plug wire test. #6 was a non-res plug, specified by the wire manufacturer

Here is what NGK really said about resistor plugs......

Hysteric, Are you really that ignorant? Engines using a distributor have a rotor that has an air gap that the spark has to jump before it gets to the spark plugs. That air gap has a resistance in the millions of ohms, several orders of magnitude greater than a 5k resistor inside the plug. In...

I have used contact cement [ glue ] many times. I must have been lucky.....

RRR, I will tell you why you do IDLE TIMING first..... You bolt on your carb, factory 12* of initial timing. You find the mixture screws are not adjusting the mixture; you are able to screw them all the way in...& engine still runs. You remove the carb & find too much transfer slot is exposed...

Jos, I believe in your country Oregon cams re-faces lifters. There will be others.

Is it the MSD DynaForce #5098 starter that you have?

On resistor spark plugs. Circle Track tested about 10-12 heli-wound plug wires that had different ohms per foot. The test was to see if resistance affected the hp. There was a small HP difference between the best & the worst, & the winner did NOT have the lowest resistance. That is likely due to...

Turk, Should have added. The links I quoted above with happy endings were from a variety of people.

...dark night.... My GTO & hundreds of thousands of other Pontiacs idled on the showroom floor with a tiny 197/212 @ 050 cam....& 10.7:1 CR....with 26*. The car makers need to be conservative because they do not know the end use of the car. The Edel tuning manual states to use plenty of init...

Use contact cement

Yep, da choke horn screws....

Dave, The FT lifter problem was never there prior to the mid 90s when manufacture moved out of the USA... Also, back 'in the day', we didn't have to remove inner springs for break in. Pontiac engines came from the factory with dual springs. They didn't remove the springs from 000s of engines...

The transfer slot. It is mentioned on p.2 of the Edel carb book.

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What follows is just a FEW examples that got it right....

A few people are saying fix the carb first. They are 100% wrong. Timing at idle [ & more if IT BIS needed ] IS NOT A BANDAID. What it shows is that folks do not understand what is going on in the cylinders...at idle!!! At idle, the air entering the engine is throttled [ almost closed t/blades...

There will always be newcomers to this hobby that are not familiar with particular words/terms & are wanting to learn....

OP, The Isky E-4 cam only part # is 390144. That comes from an Iskt Catalog [ remember them.....]. Do NOT buy new lifters unless you want to risk lobe/lifter failure. Instead, have your factory lifters re-faced.