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    adding a 2nd PCV valve

    I don't get it....whats the advantage again?
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    .620 mechanical Purple Shaft?

    save the shrooms! Get them reground.
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    .620 mechanical Purple Shaft?

    There are a set of NOS mushroom lifters for sale here forever in my hometown. $130 last I checked. craigslist/Orange County/Mopar
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    Small block idles rough only when in gear

    So you were lean....check! :thumbsup:
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    Small block idles rough only when in gear

    I bet your A/F is wrong. I battled that for about 3 months and a turn of the screw fixed it. Cant remember if it was rich or lean...make sure the advance plate in the distributor is greased too. Found mine (340 dual point) to be gunked with hard grease limiting its return speed and position...
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    Just a 284-484?

    I had one in my 65 Barracuda: 68 340, 2.02's, Hooker fenderwell headers (small port even) Strip Dominator intake, 750 Holley, 284-484 cam, MP 175K convertor (2200?) 3.91 rear. Light 'em up! Same cam and a STR-12 intake with a single Demon 650 felt a little slower but still spun em through 2nd. I...
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    Disappointed magnum head flow numbers....

    "...in order to GO, you must FLOW"...where did that come from? I think head flow is the foundation that which all power is built upon.
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    Rough idle... only when warm.

    maybe a thorough cleaning with carb cleaner, wires and air...may be a air bleed plugged with crap gas jello. My Mazda had this after sitting and the lawn mower does it every season...
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    Rough idle... only when warm.

    Carterbrocks run hot. Use a phenolic/plastic/wood or that 1/4 fiber gasket between the intake an the carb. when choked it changes the fuel circuit. Kinda sounds like your float level may be very low. Choked creates alot more vacuum so it pulls more fuel, if your float level is low, your fuel...
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    Brought Dart to shop to fix idling issue and car runs like s**t!

    you can get that 284/484 down to about 700. Had one in a 340, strip dominator intake and a 650 Demon...and it idled just fine that low. idled even better with a Holley spread bore for some reason. crazy looking carb, great idle. Dont trust anything, double check everything, 18436572 CCW..not...
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    Recertifying nitrous bottles?

    a homebrew place by my house hydrotests CO2 bottles for $15/bottle, check those places out. What pressure does a NO2 run at? May be a little different. I sold 2 out of date 20lb bottles for $40. "Property of PEPSICO" oops.....10 years out of date, Im sure they didnt miss them.
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    timing retard for nitrous .

    sounds right, a 7 pill is what you need for this or that. If your getting a pill setup, get a 10K variable resistance potentiometer and wire it into the pill socket. Every 1K of resistance is 1 degree of retard. A 10K would give you a rotary control of 1-10 degrees retard.
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    timing retard for nitrous .

    Interested in an MSD 8982? Not sure if it does what you need it to do. built in start retard and the pill socket is for 1 nitrous retard triggered by nitrous solenoid..
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    timing retard for nitrous .

    It wont know if your locked out or not, but it may end up going into a critical area of spark timing where something bad could happen if it retards past where its supposed to go. a retard is always hardware based ie. you have to advance the locked out distributor where no box retard would be...
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    Current options on multipurpose lifters?

    Flat tappet cams have a crown on the lobe (one side it taller than the other) so as to rotate the lifter. Put a roller lifter on than and it will grind that crown down and you'll lose lift. And once a cam starts getting ground on, its done. Roller cams have no crown so the roller hits 100% of...
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    Current options on multipurpose lifters?

    Pull the noisy lifters in order and disassemble and clean them, possibly change out the check valves inside as most lifters are the same anyway. a flat tappet lifter is different than a roller lifter. Schubeck used to make a $$$ ceramic faced lifter that could be transferred to another camshaft...
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    Using vacuum gauge to tune engine?

    I had 14" vacuum on a '68 spec 340 with that cam and a Strip Dominator with a 625 Demon. I got my idle down to 800/750 in gear with a MP 175K convertor. It idled better with a Holley spread bore though. Hated that Demon, it was posessed with an ill machined needle/seat boss that would shear the...
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    Any way to find camshaft lift & duration with camshaft already in engine.

    print yourself a degree wheel (https://static.summitracing.com/global/images/prod/large/SUM-G1057.jpg , https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/zR_I0GLvgJs7xNnh0LKaYrFg3nMf56qOgYLUh8u8RrCtvXvC-4SbPAxeiDqIxZwa1WHVBldBK4MaRiwp42TXM3HW) and glue it onto an old Nickleback album. Use piston stop...
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    Electric Turbo!

    I think one of the auto mags did a write up on how BMW was looking into a large belted generator on a clutch, looked like a huge alternator that they claimed added 100 ft.lbs of torque just by turning it on. It was designed to aid when downshifting or passing or starting from a stop...something...
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    Electric Turbo!

    Art Malone ran a CAS car back in the 60's. It takes one 300 SCF bottle at 2500 psi to power a 350 SBC at 14 psi for 15 seconds. Dont know what Art ran back then.
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    Electric Turbo!

    Supercapacitors. Charge up fast, discharge all they got over about a 30 second span into a 12v device with huge amps. Trouble is pumping a constant 9psi into a running vacuum (motor) take a grip of power in itself. There is no free ride. Dont know why they dont just inject compressed air out of...
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    carb question

    Dana is close and is a member, any carb can run great,you just got to tune the **** out of it. For $850, I'd go EFI @ $862
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    Tube or no Tube

    Mine were hissing out the center registers. No prob, my old rims are designed for bias ply tires anyway....and the stem hole was corroded at the edge so it may have not even been able to seal.
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    Tube or no Tube

    I have to run tubes in my rear Centerlines...seems their centerline is not sealed real well.
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    Harmonic Balancers

    I have a CAT fluid style. Thing is a tank. must weigh 50% more than a stocker but its chrome! :-) it worked with my 340 but the alignment is fubar, and fit is tight, like heat it up to install it tight. I understand it has to be to fully absorb the frequencies its designed to supress. I ended up...
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    4 bolt mains for LA

    Do you have the meat for a 4 bolt cap?
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    Small Block Windage Trays Exist in Different Profiles?

    were 340 and 360 main caps the same height/bolt width? I asked the fella that I bought the tray from and he told me it was for a 360 as the part number was different than a 340. Don't know the diff as I never had 2 side by side for comparison. Rumble, you got 5 minutes to eyeball both models to...
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    Small Block Windage Trays Exist in Different Profiles?

    uh, increased stroke? Maybe to clear rod ends....
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    Rubber Fitting for Small Block Water Pump

    pipe wrench the spud out and install an allen plug. If your lucky it'll still have the integrity to come out in one piece.
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    Small Block Windage Trays Exist in Different Profiles?

    IIRC there was a 360 windage tray also, different part number than 340. Probably the one with the oval holes. Do both have the same height when mounted? Id expect the 360 to be a little taller on the bosses.
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