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    Instructions on how to jet a Holley Street Avenger?

    When i asked about this over summer a guy with a similar build as me said that (and this was before I dynoed it and found he was right) that Street Avengers come pretty lean from the factory. He said he went with 72 in the primaries and 80 in the secondaries (and gained something like 20 hp)...
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    Insurance question (DUI related).. need advice

    I've drank about 10 times total since the incident (now nearly 6 months ago), have a breathalyzer and wont be drinking and driving again. I live in Ventura county, Ca... which is one of the few counties in the country which do not accept plea bargains :( its also one of the most expensive...
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    Instructions on how to jet a Holley Street Avenger?

    Called Holley... after waiting 30-40 minutes on hold finally got in touch with a tech. He said there's not a whole lot to it.. just remove the bowl (removing the 4 bolts) and you'll be staring at the jet. Is there anything else I should know? As far as removing the choke goes.. he said the...
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    Instructions on how to jet a Holley Street Avenger?

    I don't think its currently too rich. Some guy (Marlon, this board knows him well) tried to help me out with a quick carb adjustment... but what he did was simply to turn the idle mixture screw about 3 turns rich before i dynoed it. I've since (after the dyno) adjusted that... I doubt it'll...
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    Instructions on how to jet a Holley Street Avenger?

    I ordered a piston stop from summit but it won't get here until the weekend or monday, so figured i'd try to get something done in the meantime. When you say two smaller on primary and up two on secondary, do you mean from what i proposed or from what it is now?
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    Instructions on how to jet a Holley Street Avenger?

    Whatever it came with... 65 primary/68 secondary IIRC. Also am considering removing the choke (i'm in california, hardly think I'm ever going to need it). Any advice there would appreciated too.
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    Instructions on how to jet a Holley Street Avenger?

    Gonna try to do it tonight/tomorrow when I re-set the floats. Was planning on jetting it significantly richer (and dialing the idle mixture a bit leaner), as the dyno said it was running about 14.5:1 above 2500 rpm and pretty rich from idle up to 2500. I believe in my 'help me my car runs...
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    Tuning edlebrock 600

    starting to show my age :)
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    Insurance question (DUI related).. need advice

    Probably will get some (and deserve some) flack over this, but I need all the advice/wisdom I can get. As a few people on here know, I got a DUI in November. .09 BAC... circumstances kinda suck but all that really matters is I made a mistake and have to pay the man (a lot). The thing I'm...
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    Horsepower numbers

    What P/N are your heads? Some of the Twisted Wedge heads have .600 lift springs (p/n 51400005, i believe... which are the ones I have, and are designed for 351w's because they have the 1/2" head bolt holes rather than 7/16). However, the vast majority have springs rated for .540" of lift, as...
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    Hittin the Dyno

    damn... great numbers man!
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    (I think) Timing chain issue... might explain dyno/starting/timing issues..

    where can i find a tdc checker? summit?
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    (I think) Timing chain issue... might explain dyno/starting/timing issues..

    Its original to something, not my 66 though (obviuosly, since its a 351w). The engine was an autozone rebuild and had stuff from every year 69-74 on it (70 heads, 72/73 pistons, 69 rods, etc etc) so it'd be tough to tell the exact year. And yeah, the balancer has 3 sets of timing marks. The...
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    Found My Vibration, It Was The Clutch!!

    sweet victory! clutches seem to be one area where you really sacrifice quality when you go cheap (more so than in most areas)
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    (I think) Timing chain issue... might explain dyno/starting/timing issues..

    Well... I asked about the timing pointers over summer and don't think anyone was able to point me towards somewhere I could find them. I'd think they would be pretty cheap... I'd just buy every pointer type they had and hope one works. While I'm not 100% sure going back, I was pretty sure...
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    (I think) Timing chain issue... might explain dyno/starting/timing issues..

    The floats are coming, i swear. There are definitely carb adjustments that need to be made. Like I said previously, I want to eliminate the timing issue first though. In my mind, if I cannot set the timing for the motor where its supposed to be, all the carb adjustments in the world aren't...
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    (I think) Timing chain issue... might explain dyno/starting/timing issues..

    Always time for beers and wrenches. I've got a shiny new MSD distributor too, remember :D (and i wasted my money on it and the 6AL, my old stocker distributor w/ pertronix and 6A were both fine.. someone's going to get a good deal on that 6A on ebay I guess). Also... trying to get my...
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    (I think) Timing chain issue... might explain dyno/starting/timing issues..

    Well, it immediately 'acts up'. As soon as the engine starts and settles into a normal idle speed (800 rpm or so), vacuum settles to a range of 10-13 psi. When we timed it last night, it made peak vacuum (~16 psi) while indicating roughly 50 degrees initial timing (vacuum advance...
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    (I think) Timing chain issue... might explain dyno/starting/timing issues..

    finished reassembling her yesterday and... same thing. timing still indicating initial timing at around 45-50 degrees (and will not run below 25... couldn't find an upper limit because the distributor doesn't rotate that far). could the timing issue simply be that my sparkplug wires are too...
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    H PIPE VS X PIPE VS STRAIGHT PIPE HELP!!

    Well, for that combination, it probably won't rev high enough (and make power high enough... you have the cam but stock heads and that intake are going really to limit you above 5500 rpm) to really benefit from the X pipe. In your case, go completely off sound preference and cost. 2.5" pipes...
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