Re: Carb info needed

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The larger engine will like a larger carb. The smaller carb just keeps the engine from getting up to it's full power potential. AMC's not the only manufacturer to intentionally put a smallish carb on to limit power output. A big engine with a small carb will last a long time and you can't get enough air in to blow it up. The restrictor plate as used in NASCAR on some engines (or used to be...) is just a plate that mounts between the carb and intake with holes of a particular size. The plate is marked by NASCAR officials. I'm not sure if the stamp can be read from the outside or the carb has to come off. They use the marked plate because the officials can easily measure and verify it, carbs can be doctored up and aren't as easy to measure. You can only get so much air through a certain size hole no matter what the velocity. 


On December 30, 2005 Timothy W. O'Connell wrote:

> I've got my guy looking at the psi on the fuel pump (good tip).....will let
> y'all know.
> 
> One piece of info I left out of the original note was that I had swapped out
> my 287 V8 for a 327 V8 (parts easier to find....don't worry, I still have
> the 287 in the garage to rebuild one of these days).  Anyway....should I be
> using a different carb?
> 
> Joe... I'd LOVE to have that air cleaner.....email me off list and let me
> know what you need for it...I've been looking for one for some time.
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> T.
> 
> 
> > From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: <mail-From-toconnel-mac.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:23:42 -0800 (PST)
> > To: <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Carb info needed
> >
> > I have access to a 1964 327 air cleaner if you need
> > it.
> >
> > Joe Fulton
> > Salinas, Ca
> >
> > --- mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> If your dealing with the small 287 carb, good luck,
> >> My brother tried two on his Marlin with no luck at
> >> all, new kits thorough cleaning exact settings etc;
> >> results, same as you are experiencing. Then my dad
> >> went down to the garage he works at, Tewells in
> >> Uniontown, Pa former dealer, He rummaged through the
> >> stuff in the old parts bins and stumbled across a 66
> >> 327 two barrel carb that had been pulled from a
> >> lawyers wife's Ambassador because they had thought
> >> they ordered a four barrel car and it came in with a
> >> two barrel so the dealer swappped the intake and
> >> carb to the four barrel for them. My dad took that
> >> larger NOS two barrel carb and cleaned it up and put
> >> a kit in it. The 287 loves this carb! My brother
> >> says it starts like it has EFI and runs the same.
> >>   So you may want to go this route, You will need to
> >> find the matching 327 aircleaner if you want to
> >> maintain the look of the stock engine compartment.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mark Price
> >> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> >> Morgantown, WV
> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >> : Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:22:24 -0700
> >> Subject: Re: Carb info needed.
> >> From: "Timothy O'Connell" <toconnel@xxxxxxx>
> >> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Message-ID: <BFD98580.EE90%toconnel@xxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Speaking of carbs.....I'm on my second rebuilt 2
> >> barrel for my 63 classic
> >> V8.  Is there anything out there that I can use that
> >> will be a little more
> >> reliable?  Every time I rebuild one of these....or
> >> have it rebuilt....I end
> >> up with the same issues...it starts dumping fuel
> >> like crazy into the bowl,
> >> floods and dies.  Then it just surges cause the we
> >> can't get the float, etc.
> >> to work properly.  I give up!
> >>
> >> I hate to say it...but I'm open to considering a
> >> "non-original" part to
> >> resolve this....something I've avoided 'till now.
> >>
> >> Anyway....any suggestions?
> >>
> >> T.
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> >>> Reply-To:
> >> <mail-From-toconnel-mac.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:31:42 -0800
> >>> To: <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Subject: Re: Carb info needed.
> >>>
> >>> Ugh, beware trying to juggle BBD carb infernals;
> >> there are many, many
> >>> tiny variations in castings, drillings, acc pumps,
> >> throttle shafts,
> >>> etc etc as to be not worth the bother. ESPECIALLY
> >> if you're trying to
> >>> do this with junkyard parts to save money.
> >>>
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