Posts by CB65

Found some old posts on where guys are setting their timing at idle and total advance.

found what I was looking for in some old posts.

Thanks for that, looked at their web site and looks pretty impressive. Just curious what guys are setting their initial timing at idle and full advance.

Any recommendations where to send a distributor to have it checked out to make sure it operates the way it should.

All good points, but I found the problem I was looking at the plug wires and they were all separated on the valve cover holders but as they went up to the distributor a few were crossing over each other so I thought I would pull a few plug wire 90 degree boots off the dist. cap and re-route them and I could see the end of the plug wire was pushed back in the boot so it wasn't going down into the socket of the cap, 4 out of the 8 were that way plus the coil wire going into the cap was the same, on top of that the clip on the back side of the distributor that holds the cap on wasn't attached. After I got all of that fixed it ran much smoother and the idle jumped up 200 rpms so I was able to set it back down at 750 rpm. Alot of stupid mistakes that I should have caught but it's all good know. Thanks to 289kford for sending me in the right direction.

Thanks, Ill check that out.

P1030774 (2).jpgP1030775 (2).jpgI thought the same thing about the hesitation while cruising about 60mph you can feel a slight on and off jerking and immediately thought electrical but couldn't find anything wrong, the holley is new out of the box and I don't want to spend big money on a autolite if that's not the problem, I have a stock coil that doesn't have a built in resistor and the factory resistor wire hooked to the positive side of the coil, all new wiring from the firewall forward. And like I said it starts right up and idles good you can rev it up and hold it at 2k rpm and its smooth as silk?

I got my 65 k code on the road the other day with a rebuilt motor and all new components, it performed perfectly on the dyno and idles great but once it warms up going down the road it wants to miss under a load. we have checked everything and think maybe its the Holley 1850s 600 cfm manual choke, Ive been told by several other people one with a 66 gt350 that you'll never get it to run right unless you put the correct autolite 4100 that the hi po has characteristics that don't work well with the Holley?

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That's beyond my capability.

There is a set of hipo rods on the Seattle Wa. craigslist for $1200.

I'm a little confused how can heads with an august 3rd 64 date be to late for a April 65 car.

According to them its not so much the weight and what they were trying to accomplish, its the stretch of the factory chain over time compared to a double roller chain, I may put together a hipo setup and see if he changes his mind. So is there a special oil slinger for the hipo.

I have been told by two different machine shops not to bother putting together a factory hipo timing chain set with the counter weight , they suggest using a double roller chain set up for longevity and accuracy . I will just hang on to the hipo stuff. Another question I have, dose the hipo crank gear and weight use a special oil slinger .

My 65 fastback was made on April 11th 65 the motor has a date code March 9th 65.

I'm in the process of acquiring parts to have my motor rebuilt, Is the HIPO timing chain and cam gear available somewhere .