Carb tuning questions

Mysterio

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Oct 6, 2004
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Lakewood, Ohio
I was wondering if there was anyone in the Lakewood, Ohio area.. Or possibly anyone at all on here that can help me tune my carburetor.. I read the little paper that came with it and it basically just says turn the screws till it runs right, was wondering if anyone with any real carb tuning experience could possibly explain it a little better, or has any tips / tricks on tuning it.


Basically my problem is the car bogs out badly when I drop the pedal to the floor(It will 9/10 backfire and stall if I floor it). But If I ease into the accelerator it doesn't. So it's obviously dumping too much fuel into the carb. I don't want to just sit down there turning screws all day trying to adjust it and getting no where otherwise i'd try myself.

Thanks in advance :)


Edit: Also currently my timing is not perfect because of the carb being not tuned good we set my timing to 21* because that's when it was running best. I'd like to drop that down to 16-18 but when I do it runs even worse so I need to get that **** tuned asap!
 
Welp, I called edelbrock to ask for carb tuning help and it turned out the carb was tuned fine, my timing was just off. I was leaving the vacuum advance line ON while changing timing, which you aren't supposed to. I took the vacuum advance line off and my timing jumped from 18* to -5*.. He told me to set it at 10-12 with my setup, so I set it at 12 with the vacuum advance off, and now the ****er takes off when I floor it without the slightest bit of backfire or anything...

HOWEVER, I dropped the clutch in front of my house and it looks like it only left one tire mark... Does the trac-lock go bad after a while causing one wheel peels? I'm pretty sure it's been running evenly unti now maybe it was just cause I put heavy load on it? Or maybe the stock suspension just sucks so badly the car was leaning heavier on one side causing the mark to be on that side more?? Anyone got any ideas?