Projects Joe's American Graffiti Coupe with a Man A Fre (Milner Coupe Clone)

Awesome! Thank you so much. I should begin work on the system tomorrow.

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Please wish us luck! Today this blonde bimbo is showing us her jets!

(No offense to all the bimbos out there.)

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Best of luck and have fun.....
As for the bimbo...the blond one? If your talking about the one sitting there teasing that screw driver with her mouth....apparently the carpet doesn't match the drapes and you have a different photo of her?
Because them drapes don't look blonde to me...even for a BW photo...lol.

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Why thank you! All well wishes appreciated. No, it's the top one. The other is a nice little shot of some different intake work! Hahahahaha....

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Here is another article that may be of some help.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/meet-man-fre-guru-makes-carburetor-injector-systems-look-like-new/

 

Thank you! I appreciate any help. Lord knows I need it!

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Well, 2 of the header pipes were cool to the touch and that corresponding plug was wet with gas. Looks like we are in for a compression test tomorrow morning. Hopefully it shares good news.

When we sprayed ether around the carbs and the intake we saw no change in idle. It even seemed to bog down with sprays.

Feeling sad today, but thankful for my friends who are helping me.

Nick

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What do y'all think??

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83% of all carburetor problems are the ignition. Wet plugs not firing?

 

Yes. Ladies and Gentlemen we have compression! It was showing 210 in the cylinders! Now for disassembly....

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Guess what we found? A points distributor!
Would a lack of fire lead to drop in vaccum?



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What sparkplugs are in it? Lippy

 

No unfortunately I don't. I wish.

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Auto-lite 303s. We just replaced them today. We checked that we didn't have spark plug failure.

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More disassembly pics....

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Any comments or inspiring thoughts?

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Pics of the intake and head ports on the offending cylinder ??
And please tape the intake ports closed !

 

Tape intake ports closed? What witchcraft is this? Here's the offending passenger side....

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Well, call me old and cranky, but I don't think you'll find anything there because I still think you are dealing with a carb adjustment problem. The clearly visible balance passages will insure that vacuum in the ports is essentially the same even if there is a leak somewhere. If the flow through two carbs is less than the others those two must not be open as much (or have paper towels stuffed in them). Mike VV's setup tutorial makes perfect sense and should be the starting point. Don't mean to rant, but I think you're going down a rabbit hole.
regards,
Phil

 

Hard to tell from the pictures, I would use a softer gasket than those felpro blue.

 

Those embossed Fel-Pro gaskets don't seal right in the middle corners is one thing I see. Look at v-shape on gasket then look at missing contact on intake. But still isn't enough for that much vacuum loss. Smoke issue maybe?

 

I see the #5 and 7 intake gasket separating. Blow by on the intake manifold # 5 #7 port. # 3 port in the head appears to have been welded?

 

I agree. We're just starting fresh with the entire intake and carbs. We'll set up just as Mike stated.

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Yes. It's the front passenger carb that is dead. Our thoughts exactly. We noticed a ton of sealant blobs and a intake with no exhaust crossover but exhaust ports pushing on it.

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Looking again #2 and #4 runners in head are wet and intake @ 2 and 4 shows no contact along lower edge.

 

I know this is weird but I went through issues with a SBC years ago with passenger side vacuum leak at manifold. Drove me nuts. Finally discovered that the manifold was touching the canister at the back of the lifter galley and not showing it to come all the way down. If course it was just a few thousandths of interference but it was enough. Just had to bring the manifold slightly where it contacted that canister. Then all was good.

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Sounds right. I'll check it out!

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At some point clean intake and block surfaces and mock up intake without gaskets to see if it's hitting the ventilator canister. They make diff. length canisters BUT looks like you already have the short one. Also take a good look at clearance between mating surfaces, intake should not bottom out on the ends of block leaving a gap at intake gasket sides. If still having problems swap a known good carb from one side to the other to rule in or out the carbs. Are those rubber or cork end gaskets on the block? Nobody I know of uses them anymore...……………………….