I've got the flatty running pretty good. It idles like a top at 500 rpm all day. If you slowly give it gas in neutral it will rev nice and smoothly. If you put it in first you can take off nice and smooth. You give it a little gas and you start to pick up some speed, but you get to this dead spot where nothing happens. You have to give it a little extra gas and then it shoots off and runs strong. Some variable speed in between would be nice though. I'm thinking the two 4.5 power valves are too small, and that I need to give it mroe throttle to drop the vacuum down to get them to open up and give it some kick. So if they opened at say 5.5 it would require less throttle before they open and start giving more power. Does that make sense? Or do I need to drop down a power valve size? How about jets? Could it be related to that? How do I know if jets are too lean? I hear my #46's in each carb could be too lean but it runs fine. BTW: 59ab with max 1 cam, 8:5 to 1 high compression heads. Runs good down the road but I've only driven it once with this setup though. DMV needs to hurry up with my tags!
I'm running the stock front mount dual point but with the mallory crab cap. It's set up on a KRW jig for dwell and timing. Vacuum brake is backed all the way off. BTW, any Hamber recommended people to get carb parts from? Last time I went through vintage speed, but after hearing hambers complaints about him, I want to support someone else if I need more stuff.
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