Re: [BaadAssGremlins] : Car is done but slow off the line also engine no

Re: [BaadAssGremlins] : Car is done but slow off the line also engine noise start up

From: Rick Griffin <amc_poppy@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:09:21 -0700 (PDT)

Thats ok with me I have owned more AMXs than Gremlins . You can check cam lobes by removing valve covers and coil wire and have someone turn engine while you watch rockerarms movment they should all have the same amount of lift as engine turns over, if not its new cam time! Cam oiler if properly installed should not bleed oil from lifters.Have you zero lashed lifters? I have ran a lot of different cams and am not sure I like the specs. on your cam.It seems a lot of lift for the amount of duration.The old AMC 478/304 cam was sweet for its time .Only cam close to your cam was a General Kenitics 288 dur.-512 lift that was the worst disapointment I ever tried. A set of 1970 4 barrel pistons or aftermarket 9.5 or 10 - 1s would really help! I will stop with the advice for now -Good Luck ,Rick

--- On Mon, 4/14/08, Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] : Car is done but slow off the line also engine noise start up
To: baadassGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, April 14, 2008, 8:22 PM

more on below, and Bart, I hope you don't mind but you have a really good bit of folks here with some serious advise, even thought ain't a Gremlin. Maybe we can change that and get the guy to lie that it is a Gremlin.

Eddie Stakes

----- Original Message -----
From: arthur herrmann II

This was my first amx , first hot rod ever, around 1989. It ran then for a few years but took atleast 10 years to restore its a 1968 amx with every thing new or rebuilt in 2008 except for rear end. It took $20,000 this last year easy without adding all the receipts but I loved the car so was worth it. Ths car was a survivor of drag racing by Jim arnes, then a road course car, then wrecked on track, then junkyard, then amc junk yard were it was 100% stripped. Given to employee of yard. Rear of car welded on from other car and patched together with no body lines matching. Found 6 different patch welds in car not to mention hood fenders and doors wer not original. I went through 17 fender extension until I found two that matched fenders. Thats why its a 68 with a 1970 360 and a 1972 727 tranny. It mysteriously bent valve over when they were attempting to adjust a new carberator. I rebuit heads on my 1970 once but motor was great. Im worried about this noise of lifters when I start this car more than dog of the line problem. They blame it on a cam oiling tube that has to pump up.

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