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daman007 · 06-26-2003, 03:31 PM

sorry to say this but many times when you put a bigger manifold and better heads you will run into problems like that unless you go all the way. leave it stock, a stock moter with a bit of work usaly runs way better with the stock manifold, reason is, hear you are dumping fuel at a faster rate down BUT your air and mixture is all wrong, now im not saying this is the priblem im just going by exp, i remember once doing sn old 340 dodge an an old 302 and on both i did the smae mistake whent out bought bigger carbs, performer manifolds and the car ran worse no kidding $800.00 for nothing actually worse cause when i raced i would never race from a stop but only on rolling starts, i was a kid then so who knew. the one thing that will probably help is a new chip and get it set up by a real good set up guy, bigger injecters will make it worse not better. id bet if you put the old manifold back it would run way better and then you will feel the power of your built up heads.

06-26-2003, 03:31 PM	#5
daman007 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: victoria canada Posts: 7	hesitation sorry to say this but many times when you put a bigger manifold and better heads you will run into problems like that unless you go all the way. leave it stock, a stock moter with a bit of work usaly runs way better with the stock manifold, reason is, hear you are dumping fuel at a faster rate down BUT your air and mixture is all wrong, now im not saying this is the priblem im just going by exp, i remember once doing sn old 340 dodge an an old 302 and on both i did the smae mistake whent out bought bigger carbs, performer manifolds and the car ran worse no kidding $800.00 for nothing actually worse cause when i raced i would never race from a stop but only on rolling starts, i was a kid then so who knew. the one thing that will probably help is a new chip and get it set up by a real good set up guy, bigger injecters will make it worse not better. id bet if you put the old manifold back it would run way better and then you will feel the power of your built up heads.