Dodge Powerwagon

What carb you runnning, If I remember right the Dodges should be running the Carter afb. and it should be running a 4 bbl for the trucks.

 

ok I reread your post and you stated its a 2 bbl, did it come from the factory with a 2 bbl. What other mods have been done?

 

Did you replace the jets when you rebuilt it? You might try going down a size. But the first thing that comes to mind is the ignition may be weak because you state that it bogs and runs rich while trying to pass. 1975 should be HEI. How did you measure the output of the ignition?? Not to sure about Chrysler but Ford and GM put about 25000 to 35000 volts stock. Aftermarket, (Accel, MSD, Pertronix) Will put out about 50000 volts. Have you ever put it in a dark garage and run the engine and looked closely at the plug wires, do you see any arching or any type of light show?? Have you tried hooking up the electric choke, it should have worked ok after you rebuilt it. I rebuilt my quadraflush on my Nova and it still ran like shyte. I then bought a new quad and still ran like doodoo. So I forked out the big $$ (225) for a new Edelbrock 1405 and it runs sooooo much better. Its night and day. My carb lived for 30 years and 800,000 miles so it lived a good and long life. The Edelbrock carbs run great right out the box (no tuning) and you can set it up for manual or electric choke. I dont have any choke set up because im in southern california and it never gets below 40 so no biggie. Try setting up the electric choke on yours, check all of your springs, make sure they have the proper tension. Also make sure you have your stove pipe connected, its the pipe that goes from your exhaust manifold to your air cleaner, that way your carb will get warm air that comes off of the manifold. Not sure what your thermostat has to do with your carb since they function off of air temp, unless your trying to warm the engine up faster to get hotter air temps. Like you always say its kind of hard to diagnose without it being in my shop.

 

ooops the last 2 lines are screwed up, sorry im on like 14 beers.

 

once the engine is fully warm you should have the choke fully open, I think you are using the choke to mask another problem. Is there a spring that determines how fast the butterflies open and close??On Hollys there is but on your carb You will have to look, that could be your problem. If that spring is weak it wont open and close the butterflies properly which will make you need to adjust it with the choke. Sorry im rambling ,im on like 16 Coronas about now. Of course your carb may be totally differant than what ive worked on but im just trying to give you some ideas of where to look.

 

of course you can ask dreamzmustang and he will tell you to install a whale penis LOL

 

First thing I would be looking at is where the pirate air is coming from. Propane, or alternate fuel type stuff around the manifold runners, base plate of the carb, such like that. EGR doing what it is supposed to be?

 

what about the plugs?or did you say you checked those?

or timeing?
ORRR.....bad gas maybe?

 

He said the timing was good....but the plugs dunno

Viking...have you tried adding a 20 farad cap inline with with spark plug wire?? The deviations of the rpms normally causes the stock distributor's flux capacitor to blow

 

the carb might be a little dry

 

got that right

 

my mustang is faster tooooo!!!

 

THE WHALE PENIS WAS MY IDEA ORIGINALLY!!!! lol

bastards wouldn't know what it was called anyway haha

But Viking...I guarentee that a whale penis will smooth out the fuel distribution problem...but make sure to get a killer whale's penis

 

yea but 60 is as fast as it will go. Dreamz what are you running, I used to run 9.90 at 137 mph at Palmdale. Was running 347 stroker with Vortech blower V2 trim and aftercooler, 42 lb injectors on high flow rails, AFR 205 heads with 80cc blower exhaust port, custom ground cam, bbk headers with 2 1/2 inch exhaust with Flowmasters, 3.73 gearing, extrude honed gt40 intake. On a shift from 2nd to 3rd the u joint took a dump and a piece punctured one of the rear tires , i was in the left lane but I hit the K rail on the right lane, probably about 100 mph. The car was trashed, all the components that were in the front of the motor were destroyed, including the blower. The harness and rollcage saved my butt, i did spend 2 days in the hospital but nothing broken only for observation. the only thing that could be saved were the heads, the rest went to the crusher. Have not been to the track since.

 

what state do you live in that you can run open headers??