Haha guys do that with wing samples at the airport. But that shit evaporates in about a minute and doesn't stink bad. We save it and burn it in the mower,that 100LL smells great !
LOL, been around enough people welding to know to look away when they strike an arc or enjoy the sand in your eyes, first time watching a welding video on YT I looked away at first!
I think it's a different kind of 'work' UT doesn't like to be filmed at, where he gets in a certain zone. This kind of stuff is just kinda demonstrating the routine for him, I think. :) (It would be hard for me to do a lot of that, even with patient camera help. Sometimes I can be in teacher mode, sometimes... nope. :) (And if I put up any RU-vid videos it'll just be giving back to the general pool of random people filming how things come apart and the easiest access on a given vehicle, even if they aren't always exactly experts. I think they're unsung heroes in a world more or less without shop manuals. :)
"QUICKIE"? Nice to see a video longer than 10 minutes. I don't care what RU-vid says. When the Gearhead Monk speaks we listen! The longer the better in my opinion.
i think we use to use chapstick on the paper gaskets in a pinch on the dirt track on late night tunes on holleys,use too race the iron duke engines and been thru the same with four cyl class,need every bang for the buck
Simple Craftsman hand tools, simple logic applied, simple engine to work on. The "technique" is simple as well; his hands move almost identically to what mine do to this day. Those hands are seriously seasoned. Pure "Point A" to "Point B" wrenching, no flash, no textbook sanitary - just exactly what is needed to do the job, nothing more - and tempered, oh so very tempered, at every step by years of experience in knowing what could go wrong if done differently at any point. It's a pleasure to watch Tony's videos again. I like this course of content creation and think it does the hobby a world of good that it gets put out there. This is the stuff young skulls full of mush need to learn so that the hobby survives. Good on ya, Tony. - Ed on the Ridge
Tony there is one other Trick you can try if Jetting does not make you totalaly Happy. In Roundy Round cars with Strait 4 cyl they use DEFLECTION PLATES to Divert some of the fuel from going to the furthest Cylanders. They us this when Dino-Tuning the 2.3 For Pinto motors. IT IS A POWER MAKER! They make the plates from Sheet metal and trim them to suit the amount of fuel they want to go the the furtherst cylinders.
Those slant sixes are surprising for it's small displacement, my mom had one in a volary station wagon and when I first drove it I thought it was a 318 I was quite surprised when I went to check the oil and saw the leaning tower of power!
Ive done the same build...Put a 77.4 on the north side and add 6 spacers on the first pump, then use a non stick gasket under the scoop. I recommend 6/8th german wrenches...reverse thread of course. Fill er up with 214 Octane rocket fuel and off you go!
Generally I love my Fords; I have Fords, but there's something just so sweet about a slant six, and the sound of a Chrysler starter motor from this era... so sweet...
Yeah, the slant is a great engine, even stock. They purr like a kitten forever with just the most basic maintenance. And the Mopar starter, there is not another sound like it on the planet Earth. I used to think they sucked, but then I found out that the gear reduction really helped in cold weather cranking (and believe me, up here in ND, cold weather is a thing!).
@@clembob8004 ... thanks for your comments... being from upstate NY, we have it cold up here, too... cold weather cranking power is a must-have for us too!
The Mopar Bible specifies popsicle stick air dams inside the intake for fuel distribution problems like this. A flexible fuel line allows the bowls to be removed without removing the fuel lines. It costs about 20 dollars more. You can slice an all metal line and put some flex hose in the middle. The Roadkill guys have a good video on carb tuning with an Air Fuel Gauge, though it is meant for a street car.
I think it’s time for an uncle Cathy shout out on the next video ! We all know that without the women like Cathy in our lives, life could be significantly worse ! For those that wrench on muscle cars, big trucks, or whatever the hell it might be, having a significant other that understands and tries their best to appreciate our sickness and addiction is a priceless addition to our lives and success in my opinion ! And I think appreciation should be shown ! That’s all. Hope u got something outa that. See ya tomorrow 😀
I don't know whether Uncle Cathy does it in everyday life, but she has remarkable self control in not saying a word when there are times where most could not do it.
I wish your channel was around 15 years ago. I wasted tens of thousands of dollars on my old charger and hardly got anywhere. I could never find a mechanic like you that knew what he was doing.
@@MrSwinger1 I agree, I'm not saying anything bad about the shops that worked on my car. They did their best, but I should have found somebody who knows mopar like Tony. I could have saved a lot of money and headaches
@@MrSwinger1 thanks for the response and I agree again. I was aware of the high cost of modifying and repairing a vintage muscle car(especially a mopar). I just didn't do my research and find the right shop.
Great video. I have not seen anyone else go into such detail on the topic of plug-tuning before. Obviously not rocket science, but the level of detail is more than meets the eye. I think most of us go for gross step-ups in power, where your limiting the inquiry to a specific context gives a lot of ideas that are generally ignored. When I was watching super stocks in the heyday, I often wondered how some, like Sox and Martin, Ramchargers and Grumpy Jenkins would consistently be class winners, while many others with essentially identical cars would not. I knew some cars would say "tuned by Joe Fabeets" or whatever, but did not know exactly what it meant.
If you can't get the blue gaskets and have to use stock type gasket there is a trick. Get some Chapstick or Vaseline and coat the factory gaskets real good on both sides. Next time you pull the bowls it comes right apart. After you take apart just add a coat before you put it back on. I coat the blue withem also just for insurance. Works real good on the bowl screw gaskets also.
Many years ago, a family friend whose family owned the local MG dealer, was screwing around with intakes trying to get the optimum mixture, just like Uncle Tony is doing. He found that putting a step in each end runner helped clean up the fat condition on number one and number four. I remember this in particular as a kid walking into the garage on a visit while he was stick welding some material about a half inch up from the port in each end runner of the intake, an inline 4. Said it was an old trick from the BMC racing team in the 60s. This might be something worth pursuing using high temp silicone or something along those lines.
Nice video. As always,inspirational to me & at my age i need inspiration. Main difference in our daily activities Tony is that you're there doing it in a shop & i'm here in North Alabama working under a canopy in trailer park. Now i'm going outside to work on the '65 Coronet.
Im just starting my venture into carbs. my 74 challenger has a quick fuel 650, these videos are, if nothing else, taking the stress out of opening one up and playing with it! Thanks Tony! Also if you remember i asked about my car fighting to stay alive in gear on one of your lives. turns out i had 9-13psi of fuel pressure. we put a regulator in, brought it down to 6psi and that fixed the issue!
It's a Holley Tony....easy enough to modify for one idle circuit to feed both end cylinders. I'm just a couple of years younger than you, and made a Rochester Q-Jet run hard on a 1600cc L16 in a Datsun 510. Was not easy but I have been into carburetion since about the time I was potty trained. And dude, buy a jet wrench.
Wow you did all this without a cigarette in your hand, what is the world coming to. LOL ROLL UP YOUR CIGARETTE!!! GREAT TUNING VIDEO!!!👍 GREAT CAMERA WORK ULTRA KATHY!!! Those plugs look pretty good and with that jet change it should fatten up 3 &4. Look forward to seeing what kind of time Plan Z runs.
Need to get you’re hands on an ‘Aussie speed’ intake manifold which has runners that are very similar in length. Helps with jetting & tuning also has more low down pull. Best slant manifold on the market
just wanted to say thank you uncle tony, you have helped me with my 318 though your videos so much and I appreciate you taking the time to put these videos out.
Silicone spray helps a whole lot with keeping gaskets from sticky. I spray carb gaskets before installing them and they won't stick if I have to remove them.
I should have mentioned this before when you did UT, but I wish I would have known about the differential jetting on an inline when I had my F-150. Don't know if it would have worked on a 500 Edelbrock. But I could never get rid of an off idle stumble, but once rolling, it was a beast. It had a 300.
@@pookysdad4884 nothing wrong with that , screwing around with epoxies isn't uncommon when involved in port issues along the entire intake tract even the port in the head.
Careful cleaning those metering blocks and stuff. Years ago when I didn't know what I was doing too much , a buddy said his car ran like crap. We suspected a carb issue so we took it off and the butchery was everywhere , all kinds of scraped off sealing ribs and stripped you-name-its. I was smart enough to know that will mess with the carb circuitry. He went and got a new carb. They've got all kinds of little raised ribs on them to seal off passages , and it's easy to scrape one while removing those stupid gaskets. Can't say I've been around em enough to figure a decent way to clean em ,other then being careful.
This is why I stay away from Holley carbs. I don't like the design that can cause leaks so damn easy. I once put a 650 Holley on a 318 and had nothing but trouble with it, could never get the thing to stop leaking and it didn't perform all that well. Then on a whim, someone gave me a 780 Thermoquad off of a 77 Cordoba 400. I chucked the Holley, put on the T-Quad, and my God it was magic! That thing ran great, no stumble no bog, just pure ass acceleration every time I mashed the peddle. Then I put in a 1" carb spacer and removed the secondary metering rods and it only got better.
A-plus tutorial, Tony. Well done. I'm guessing the ram-charge effect at low rpm of the long runners to 1 & 6 are aggravating compression & cam mods... so they're fat at low rpm. You might want to refer viewers to your video on the Chrysler 'Cross Ram" or Plymouth "Sonoramic" intake manifolds where you explain the concept. Also this level of jet management or tinkering is not just Uncle Tony, or just drag car knowhow. It's old skool tuning know-how that was used in all forms of auto racing. The early Porsches had flat fours similar to VW Bugs. by the late 50's the ran two two barrel carbs. In tradition muscle car lingo the carbs sat East/West. For hill climb races the Porsche factory used different jets for the 'front" vs "back" barrels to compensate for the different level in the front of the bowl vs the back of the bowl!!
Hey tony love your highly advanced technical carb tuning secrets! I have a 232 I6 jeep. So relevant to me since I have just added an offy manifold and a 450 4-B. Can you use a holly with idle in all for corners? Guessing there is not one on the spare parts shelf? And my shop teacher told me the the throttle plate controlled how much fuel and the jets controlled the ratio of air/fuel. Just trying to set up a stump puller and sand dune runner-upper. 😎 Again love you channel! Keep going!!!
Not knit picking everyone has their way. When breaking lines loose with fittings that want to turn offset your wrenches like you did but just grab and squeeze them both. Saves my hands and knuckles, but I work on big lines like you might use ratchet straps to break it. Great info and though thanks!
Okay, now I know what to watch for on the plugs. I still haven't decided on a carb for my slant yet but I'm going to run a Weiand manifold. I was looking at a 500 to 600 cfm setup cause mine will be a corner turning road car but seeing how your carb is working I'm going to think on that a little more. Thanks Tony!
Really makes me miss my 66 Belvedere. Bought it 1996 with 66,000 miles on it from the original owner. Had the original window sticker and owners manual. It was slant 6 powered.. well not much power, but it was damn reliable
My 340 build in 73 had the carter AVS stagger jetted and the venturis cut to work with the LD 340 dual plane manifold.. Something racers did then you wont see now.
Hi Tony, I re jetted.both of my c3 vettes, and re timed the distributors, and I learned it from you. I believe you discussed the jetting issue awhile back. BTW, it helped.
Thanks for clearing up the sideways carb experiments. I still think it's worth more experimentation, but it looks like you'll get it working just fine that way. What I'd like to see is the carb turned with the primaries to the pass side, then compare that to having the primaries on the drivers side BUT with a primary metering block on the secondary side of the carb, so the idle circuits feed the secondaires like Chevy did on their medium duty truck engines. But I ain't trying to tell you what to do... maybe I'll try something like that on one of my old Chevy 6's, if I ever find a 4bbl manifold for them.
10:01 benefit of working in your own indoor shop is doing stuff that would get you fired anywhere else. Like dumping gasoline on the floor. Tough guy cool.
Uncle Tony, I have something to add to your theory of turning the carb 90* east-west. If east-west flooded your 2 fattest holes "1,6", then wouldn't turning it 180* (west-east) fatten up your two middle holes "3,4" that are lean? The uneven runners are going to require different fuel, so give them the fuel they need from the idle circuit.
@@rcnelson you hook it up the same way ..... But different..... Haha I don't know for sure how it's exactly it's supposed to attach, but I made a Weber for a Toyota run on an 88 Chrysler with a 90* pipe elbow and some spare hardware. I know there's a way for it to be done.
