Recent content by jefeingold

Final post (I think). The issue is that when setting up and tuning the carbs I dumped a ton of gas into the manifold that, of course, made its way into the crankcase, thereby diluting the oil. The exhaust system thereby got a good internal coating and dose of diluted oil. New oil and filter is...

all 1964 dates. The buddy bar manifold is 8-64

yeah, but the smoke is pretty oily smelling, and it's spewing equal out of both exhausts, so I don't think it's coolant from a blown head gasket.

I've installed a vintage Ford performance tri-power set-up (Buddy Bar manifold) on my 347 sbf. The Holley carbs (dated 1964) are List 2436 (primary) and 2868 (Secondaries). Prior to install I cleaned, re-surfaced to flatten warpage, centered the throttle plates, replaced everything, and...

Dig it - see photo. By the way, I downloaded the 3Deuces booklet from HPTrends. Wow, that is a super detailed and useful piece of work - I need to go back and do some steps he recommends before trying to synch my deucing#&$* carbs! Just a note to all you hundreds of people with tri-power sets...

63 1/2 FUTURA (no SPRINT TRIM PACKAGE?) - No Sprint bling for me- it's a Futura, not a Sprint, and I'm honest about what I drive, so I'm not gonna make a repro Sprint (altho a previous owner did add a Sprint insignia on the C pillar, and you gotta remove the headliner to change it out...). I am...

Thanks Sal and KULTULZ. I was considering taking the route of partial throttle on the secondaries to get more throttle on the primary. The (not so) funny thing about that is when I adjust to those specs, the primary goes to WOT while the secondaries open to, say, 70%. I fear that under...

Yeah, Sal, I thought of that. The throttle arms on the primary/secondaries are at a perfect 1:2 ratio, with the shorter arms being the secondaries. This is factory, but I still can't believe they designed this so the secondaries begin to open at 20% primary throttle. As KULTULZ suggested, I'll...

I have an August 1964 Buddy Bar/Ford Performance manifold with the correct Holley 2300 two-barrel List 2867 and 2868 carbs and the proper linkages. The problem is that if I get the carbs all opening at WOT in synch, the secondary carbs begin to open at about 20% throttle in the primary. If I...