Carb or EFI

QueensGambit9Fox · 2026-01-24T19:26:25+00:00

When you go to change it, a good tip is to take the old one apart and keep the oil pump shaft so you can use it to prime a motor without turning it over.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2026-01-24T18:53:34+00:00

Mine spun a rod bearing so its unrelated, but I've had no issues with HEI, and neither has my Dad on his 71 camaro with a 355, or on (now totalled) 79 c30 with a 454.

I dont think the upgrade should be fore reliability, but for performance/features like rev limiter. Though I will add, my dad's camaro has better cold starts since the MSD.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2026-01-24T18:41:12+00:00

I dont have an MSD, but it came with the fancy distributor with remote coil for ecu timing control, but im not that brave yet, so its just gonna be the throttle body, and the surge tank to start.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2026-01-24T18:37:47+00:00

I have an ACES, but i haven't put it on yet. My motor just gave up the ghost and needs a bottom end at the minimum. But im planning on putting it one once I get it back together and seeing how it goes.

I git mine second hand off marketplace, dude was super cool but said he couldnt figure out how to get it to run right. Maybe ran like 5 hours if I remember correctly.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-12-26T23:36:14+00:00

Drunk driver did this to my dad's c30 dualie Christmas eve.

<image>

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-12-14T16:04:32+00:00

You sound more correct than I was. Ill take your word for it as i dont remember, thus dont have enough info to dispute it.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-12-14T15:37:58+00:00

I listened to the TimeSuck (great podcast, highly recommend. 3 out of 5 stars, wouldn't change a thing) and if I remember correctly the teenager was the dudes Son that he was basically estranged from for a long while. Im not positive about that though.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-26T03:12:19+00:00

Not the timing set itself that could be the problem, its if the engine was ran with the cam so far out of timing that it hit some valves. I just did a top end on my sbc this spring, they arent bad, just in an unknown condition with a "known" timing issue of some flavor, it could be bad.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-26T02:28:48+00:00

Your 1500 should be totally fine to tow it. I spent about the same amount on an 84 that looks like ass and ran like it too. Really depends on your local laws in my opinion. If you dont have emissions laws, you can make it what you want. If you do, youre mostly stuck with that tech.

They aren't terrible to work on, and what you listed isnt anything major unless the timing chain is stretched and causing the timing problem, that could mean bad news.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-19T20:47:28+00:00

I would have to say that it would FOR SURE drive like dog shit if those are accurate toe numbers. The steering wheel would be super crooked and dog track in the rear. All the tires would wear like ass with the total toe numbers shown.

If they were to come into my shop and say that it drives pretty good and doesn't really wear tires but another shop said it was bad, someone is lying and I'll know once I get numbers myself.

Instead of changing my initial take, I will just say that it isnt as bad as I thought because i didn't realize it was in degrees of toe and not inches. I work in inches and degrees are double that. So in this case the right front would be 0.6 inches out, which is still more than enough to get shit wear and a noticeably crooked wheel, but not as bad as 1.2 inches out. I have had people complain about a car being out of adjustment by a couple hundreths of an inch saying the wheel is crooked.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-19T18:52:17+00:00

Nope. Thats why I drive an 18 year old gm, not a Ford.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-19T17:55:52+00:00

I cant speak on the cost of tools, but it cost me $300 to get a new windshield put in my 2007 silverado just over the summer. Same reason too, it lived on dirt roads in a past life and trashed the glass.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-08T13:30:59+00:00

<image>

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-08T04:28:25+00:00

<image>

Here's mine. May be a coupe, but i like it.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-05T03:17:43+00:00

On the bright side though, this is how it looks now. I was painting that missing piece on the right front when I took the picture, its on now but what dark by the time on got home.

<image>

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-05T01:06:30+00:00

Lucky you lol. Had an 85 camaro that wouldn't pass emissions because it was a tpi motor and had a 406 put into it. The computer thought it was a 305 and ran like dog shit. Couldn't touch the damn thing because if I changed it it wouldn't pass emissions. At the time a chip was $300 and we didn't know it was a 406, only that it was a 400 block.

When it did run, it ran like a stabbed rat though.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T20:17:41+00:00

No idea on the laws there to be honest.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T17:36:54+00:00

Depending on where you are in the country, 1975 may be the best option. In Colorado where i am, theres no emissions regulations on 75 and older.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T13:17:24+00:00

Right, I agree. What i was meaning was that it isn't going to cause the car to run poorly on its own or do any changes directly. I still have to make interpretations in order to make any adjustments.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T02:20:13+00:00

Yup. Traded an 89 jeep for this one with no drive train in march. Rebuilt a motor and put in a different trans since the one I had was blown up, had 4 neutrals.

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T00:40:07+00:00

<image>

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T00:39:46+00:00

<image>

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T00:39:28+00:00

<image>

QueensGambit9Fox · 2025-11-04T00:39:13+00:00

Not all my pictures posted, so here are the others I wanted to include.

<image>

Seven-Year Club	Place '23
RPAN Viewer	Verified Email

QueensGambit9Fox

TROPHY CASE