Factory Carb Resto

Tell Pony Carbs about your engine and cam. They'll make appropriate recommendations based on something like 20 years of experience. They do offer a "performance rebuild" with some internal "tweaks" for engines that are modified.

One Problem that the old 4300 carbs had was the cut out in a corner. This can be solved by using a pivioting flat from an AMC police car. Not sure the exact AMC application, but it does work. A friend here had one in his pantera and it ran fine until recently we replaced the stock engine and carb with a 4.6.

Before you disassemble that carb know where the accelerator pump check valve is and be ready to catch it when the lower portion of the carb is inverted.

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Originally posted by A Hudson:
I'm taking the carb off myself, and plan on detailing everything I can reach.

Probably a waste of time.

When the parts come out of the carb cleaner and get washed, everything will be clean enough to eat off of. And every carb rebuild worthy of the name starts with disassembly of the unit and a soak in the carb cleaner.

Here's mine after a trial reassembly:

Thanks MRR! Love the carb shot. I was more referring to the firewall, intake, vacuum lines, and all that foolishness you can only see better with all the carb and plumbing gone. My intake is the sorest spot, so I plan to do the spider monkey imitation and fold myself in there somehow. Should have Ford blue nostrils by the time this thing is done.

How's your great car (that was 'almost' mine!) coming along? Love that car and glad you got it.

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Originally posted by A Hudson:
How's your great car (that was 'almost' mine!) coming along? Love that car and glad you got it.

I'm glad you got the one you did, too. You got an original car, and you seem to have the resources to do to the same things for it that I would do. Lucky car.

We finally had our dyno weekend to tune the carburetor and ignition. I was originally going to go to considerable trouble to get it just right, but now I'm in the group buy for a quad-Weber manifold, so I didn't go overboard. We (Zensport and I; great bunch of guys) ended up leaning out both of the squirters as well as the primary main jets, and advancing the ignition by 2 degrees. With these changes we saw a better air-fuel ratio everywhere below about 4500RPM, better idling, and a more responsive engine. As a side benefit, there was a small horsepower increase. And the engine sounds great. Oh yes, for the curious: 335RWHP. Haven't floored it yet, don't really need more.

New tires came in this week: Michelin Pilot Sport PS2, 235/40/17 and 335/35/17. I'm still waiting for the wheels, because they are being custom manufactured: http://www.usacomp.com/hb.htm

(These wheels are also on Ron McCall's car.)

Here it is, ready to be strapped to the dyno:

Oh, and just to stay on-topic, here's one more shot of my cleaned-up Holley:

Now for my turn off-topic - I have seen zillions of wheel upgrades (apply your own definition) and in the looks department, yours and McCall's are THE finest I've seen of all. I love Campys, so that's a no-contest, but for any deviation from that, the Halibrand look is the finest, with the GT40/Cobra nod tossed in for good measure. Fantastic.

I'm going to attempt yanking my old 4300 off today. Hope I don't drop any microscopic parts where the don't belong. Oh, and if I wasn't dead set on original, I'd be all over the Webers.

We'll see what happens with the PonyCarb folks in a couple weeks. Thanks all.

If you have any other suggestions for me, I'm open.