For those that offered suggestions on how to tune for more power in
Colorado, I have found my problem. I gave the car a tuneup over the
weekend and just had it out today for the first time since. I had never
read my chiltons tuning manual very well so when I got to the part about
balence I just sort of skipped over the page and went to work. Well I
actually read it over the weekend before tuning and I realized that I
needed to balence the carbs at off idle as well. While the carbs were
perfectly balanced at idle the front one was barely comeing off idle when
I hit the gas. At sea level I guess I was pulling enough air that I was
ok, but at 6000 feet one carb just wasn't cutting it. I fixed that up and
the car is much more powerful now. My timing is still at about 23 degrees
BTDC due to a half-ass points replacement during the drive to Ohio so I
look foreward to getting that fixed and having even more power. Thank you
all again, and I hope that this helps someone else in tuneing their car.
James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'74 BGT bastardization with big aluminum heart :)
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