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I recently nearly tuned my 625 CFM Street Demon and figured I'd share my experience. I bought this carburetor in 2015 and only recently spent the time to tune it. Lots of delays between then and now that are probably stories in themselves (and lots of helpful info from the forum) and I'm...

(Long story, question at the end) I have a 73 Duster with a 340 and an electronic ignition. Three weeks or so ago the car started and drove fine. Tuesday I went to drive it and it did not start. I checked for spark at the #1 spark plug with a spark tester and didn't see any spark. Then I...

I have a 73 Duster and, hopefully, within the next month will be bypassing the bulkhead connector. I have the 73 manual with the wiring diagrams and this diagram shows a 60A alternator option that bypasses the bulkhead so I am planning on copying this for the most part. This leads me to a few...

Back when I had my 73 Duster restored I had the drive train swapped and had a Keisler perfect fit kit (TKO 500) put in it. This came with a hydraulic clutch setup. I never liked the clutch pedal in this car. The way it is setup, i have to push the pedal as far as it will go and it still will...

I have a 73 340 and replaced the Edelbrock Performer I had with a Street Demon carburetor. Upon doing so, I essentially ran out of throttle cable adjustment at the bracket. The throttle cable is a stock style cable. Is there a way to adjust this cable a little shorter so that I can have more...

I have a used Edelbrock Calibration kit 1487 that is for the 600 cfm Performer 1406 carburetor. The only things missing are the little springs that attach to the rod weights in the carburetor. All of the jets, rods, and step up springs are there. I'm thinking $25 plus shipping from 28164.

A used Edelbrock Model 1400 Performer Carburetor. This is the emissions legal carburetor linked here: http://www.jegs.com/i/Edelbrock/350/1400/10002/-1 I think it is designed for smaller engines (see application chart on jegs.com). It has a Mr. Gasket inlet with a threaded fitting...

I put on a Street Demon carburetor this weekend and in the process rerouted my fuel line (that was fun...) and finally checked the voltage on my electric choke line that was put in place by the shop that restored my car. The reason I was looking at it is because it was a (blue) wire off of the...

I recently purchased the Mr Gasket fuel inlet kit for edelbrock performer carburetors, pictured here http://www.jegs.com/i/Mr.+Gasket/720/29883/10002/-1. Once I got everything installed (I was trying to route some new fuel line for my new pump, but that's a different story) the plug at the 1/8"...

[Brief background: I have a 73 duster with a 340, XE274H cam, Performer RPM manifold, and an Edelbrock Performer 1400 carburetor. I had the car restored at a local shop and I'm the guy who wanted a less powerful engine with a nicer idle. I will probably have the cam changed at some point, but...

I've noticed that my fuel filler line tends to hiss whenever I open up the cap to put gas in the car. I don't know if it is vacuum or pressure (assuming it is pressure, but haven't verified) and it got me to looking at my fuel system, or at least starting to in order to make sure everything is...

I'm in the process of trying to pick out a smaller camshaft for my Duster since the one I have, for me, is too rough of an idle for daily traffic driving. I've been asking a lot of questions (with good answers) and have been compiling some different info. I started this spreadsheet really just...

I've done a few different searches and went through a few posts (there are lots of them depending on search criteria) that discuss dynamic compression ratio and pump gas. Most of them seem to agree that 8.5 is the max DCR to target for regular pump gas compatibility, I think, for 93 octane, but...

The shop that restored my car told me the compression ratio in my 340 was around 9.75:1. I'm in the process of looking at getting a smaller camshaft for it so I'm looking at the relationship between cam timing and dynamic compression ratio and all of that fun stuff, so I figured I would try to...

For a car intended to be used as a daily driver type street car, are there significant advantages to using a new cam grind over the stock cam? After driving my car for nearly a year, I'm still not crazy about the idle characteristics. It runs fine in the higher RPMs, but I still don't...

I have three good used acorn center pieces and one with a chip on the outer edge. The tire shop guy got happy with his crowbar. One of the pictures is a closer view of the chip. These are from a 73 Duster and are the large bolt pattern. I'm thinking $110 + shipping from 28031 (Just north of...

I would like to learn a little bit more about how and why engines work and don't want to berate you guys with random questions I should be able to find the answer to, so I am thinking of buying a book to do some self study. I'm looking for something that covers some camshaft, head, timing...

... Nothing!!! I wasn't getting manifold vacuum from the carburetor (Edelbrock Performer 1400) and took the carburetor off to look under it. I figured there'd be some channel running directly from what I thought was the manifold port to the area under the throttle plates, but I didn't see...

You guys are probably getting tired of my questions on all of this, but I hope to be finished with this soon. As (a short) background for those who haven't seen my numerous posts, I had my car restored and motor changed from a /6 to a 340 and now I am in the process of learning how to tune...

No, this isn't to ask which one to connect to my vacuum advance, but it is related (I was searching on the web and that subject is as bad as politics and religion!) I was looking at my tuning and, in the course thereof, hooked up a vacuum gauge to the manifold vacuum port on my carb and the...

Tomorrow my friend and a friend of his are coming over to help me tune my Duster. At the very least, I hope to get more familiar with the 340. The last time I touched a distributor it was on the slant six that used to be in it. I'm thinking if I take notes on where everything is starting...

My 73 Duster/340 currently has TTI headers/exhaust (2.5") with the standard DynoMax Super Turbo mufflers. After driving the car, I have determined that performance mufflers are not for me (I didn't even look at them before ordering the system...oops!) and would like a quieter muffler. Is...

Here is the floor shifter from my 73 Duster with a console. This is what the shop restoring my car gave back to me, so check the picture and if you don't see something, ask and I'll take another look to see if it is there or not. Not sure what this is really worth so I'll start at $75...

Here is the top plate for a floor console with an automatic shifter. I replaced this with the four speed version when I switched out the drive train. This is from a 73 Duster, but I think it will work on most of the consoles. I also have one of those aftermarket type black sliders I'll...

Here are two white door handles from my 73 Duster. I thought about throwing them out, but figured I'd check here to see if anyone was interested in them. As you can see from the pictures, they are pretty beat up. These came off of my car, so they still held in place with the right screws (not...

I really know the answer to that question, but here's how it relates to my recent motor experience. I got my 73 Duster restored at a shop recently (long project, took two years, ugh) as outlined in the 73 B3 Duster thread in the restorations section. The guy I took it to runs a shop and had...

GP Sorensen 1920 Holley rebuild kit, Part number 96-191B Ships from Cornelius, NC $20 + shipping or best offer. I will also put in one of my cork fuel bowl gaskets since I've never liked the ones that come in the kit.

Now that the /6 in my 73 duster has been exchanged for a 340, I have a few parts laying around that may or may not be worth anything and I'd like to clear up some space. I have a couple of complete (I think) 1920 Holley carbs that I probably bought off of ebay at some point. I don't know...

I have the motor mounts I bought for my 73 Duster /6. I put one of them on and the insert didn't seem quite right (or I didn't know what I was doing) so I put the original back in. Now the car has a 340 so I don't have any use for these mounts any more. I bought them from Advance Auto, but...

**Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, so please move it if it isn't** I bought a Keisler TKO-500 to put in my 73 Duster with a console. I wanted the SS400, but when I went to order it, Keisler had just found out that the A-body model that they had designed on paper didn't...