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Monday
Jul182011

Rear-end Hiccup, tuning figuring, and a moving shifter.

 

After I bit of driving the Camaro for awhile something did not seem right on our(myself and my buddy) rear-end mod on the Camaro. It would howl lots on the road. So last thusday of this month we got into it (to include what we didn't do is put in shims to space the lash properly and get a accurate pattern for the gears to mesh in). After 6 hours of all said and done we got everything perfect. At that point we were both glad that it was all over. 
And now that was done. I moved on to tuning the car. I took it over to my brothers place which he is familiar with tuning Camaro's. He set the timing on it with a timing gun. The car woke up with power on the straightway for awhile. I tried to launch the car and the shifter(5 speed manual) was pushing up(I noticed it earlier that day) and this knocking sound was happening, apparently from what my brother said is that I need to get new transmission crossmember rubbers. We then turned around to go back it started to have lack of power again. We put the timing gun back on timing is staying where its supposed to be. We pulled a spark plug, burning good from what we could see from brand new ones. I do have brand new plug wires installed as well. We do suspect that the line fuel line to the carb is twisted a little bit is restricting fuel on the carb and therefore making the engine have lack of power at certain times. We are going to swap fuel lines(just to the pump) and see what happens there. Just before I drove home, my brother set to more degrees advance. The car drove awesome, it felt the car was more free. And the car didn't when I drove it home, lurch the car around and pound on the floor because it runs at a higher rpm at idle.
First thing now is the crossmember rubbers and check motor mounts too. Then the fuel line thing and hopefully replace the carb with a Edelbrock one. Tinted windows will be come soon I promise. 

 

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