<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>Glad to hear about your success. You might want to make sure your jets are for the higher altitude in Nevada.</span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439558266248_6289"><span>Mark</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, August 14, 2015 12:50 AM, Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr@teampanteraracing.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">In my best Gene Wilder voice...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">ALIVE!.... ALIVE!.... IT'S ALIVE!!!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I forgot to grab the extra bits I needed on the way home, so after <br clear="none">dinner it was back to Napa and then to Autozone to get the fittings for <br clear="none">the fuel and vacuum. Done deal, I picked up the brass fuel fittings <br clear="none">from Napa though I had to do a two-piece kludge to get 90* and the size <br clear="none">I wanted for the fuel line; at Autozone I picked up a large variety pack <br clear="none">of vacuum fittings and a large variety pack of vacuum plugs.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Once home, I fit the 90* fitting onto the fuel log, an appropriate size <br clear="none">vacuum fitting on the ported vacuum port and set about final float <br clear="none">adjustments.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'm beginning to love this little hand-held vacuum pump. It came with a <br clear="none">reservoir so you can either suck fluid without getting it into the pump, <br clear="none">or push fluid out in a neat manner. With that in mind, I used the pump <br clear="none">to get some gas out of Shelley's Jeep (don't tell her that). I then <br clear="none">reversed the pump, attached it to the fuel log of the Holley and started <br clear="none">pumping.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">With the sight plugs removed, I could see the floats rising until they <br clear="none">stopped. They both stopped short of the sight holes so I raised them <br clear="none">each about a quarter to half turn. I'm sure glad I did this on the <br clear="none">bench and not on the car... those center-hung fuel adjusters for the <br clear="none">needle and seat can leak like a mother when you loosen the screw to <br clear="none">adjust the nut. Good grief!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Once the floats were adjusted I installed the sight plugs and put the <br clear="none">carb on the engine. I snugged everything down, routed the fuel lines, <br clear="none">vacuum lines, attached linkage and the 12V feed to the choke. After <br clear="none">installing the air cleaner, I pulled the Halon fire extinguisher out and <br clear="none">set it on the seat next to me.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For some reason, I kept thinking of the next door neighbor kid when I <br clear="none">was young. He was 16 or 17 and had an early 70's Camaro. One night he <br clear="none">was messing around with the carb (not that he was the brightest bulb in <br clear="none">the box) and he got a backfire that lit it on fire... in the garage.... <br clear="none">under the house.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The house burned completely to the ground.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I figured if mine caught fire I'd throw it into reverse and get it out <br clear="none">of the garage, then put out the flames.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">One pump on the pedal and she fired on the first turn... and idled <br clear="none">smoothly without intervention.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">HoooHAAA! She's alive and purrs.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I grabbed my drop-light and did an inspection around the carb while <br clear="none">running to check for leaks. Finding none after a bit of engine rumbling <br clear="none">I shut it down and quit for the night. I have to pick up friends at the <br clear="none">airport in a little while. I'll monkey with fine tuning it all tomorrow <br clear="none">and this weekend.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But right now... that old Holley 3310-2 (modified) from Mark is working <br clear="none">after about $150 in parts and some of my evening time over the last week <br clear="none">or two.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Fun times,<br clear="none">Asa Jay<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br clear="none">& Shelley Marie<br clear="none">Spokane, WA<br clear="none">******************************<br clear="none"><a href="http://www.racingagainstautism.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://www.racingagainstautism.com</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://www.teampanteraracing.com</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt6506303665" id="yqtfd68117"><br clear="none">On 8/12/2015 9:43 PM, Asa Jay Laughton via TPR wrote:<br clear="none">> Just about finished the carb tonight after running into some necessary <br clear="none">> changes; all this prior to mounting on the car.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I found the choke fast idle cam was broken and missing the <br clear="none">> bob-weight. The one on my current Holley was fine. I swapped the cam <br clear="none">> to the rebuilt 3310. Then I had planned on using my existing choke <br clear="none">> cover except that it really should have manifold heat (it's not <br clear="none">> electric), but the passage in the intake is blocked because the heater <br clear="none">> gizmo didn't fit properly when I rebuilt the engine. So I thought <br clear="none">> about using the electric that came with the 3310, except that it was <br clear="none">> kind of funky with a hand soldered connection on one side; I didn't <br clear="none">> really trust it. Then my long-term memory kicked in and I scrounged <br clear="none">> through some old drawers with Mustang parts.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Aha! An older Motocraft electric choke cover in great condition. It <br clear="none">> might not be calibrated for Holley but it's essentially the same. So <br clear="none">> I put that on. Oh, but did I mention I don't really have an electric <br clear="none">> supply to the choke? More on this later.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Then I noticed the linkage wasn't nearly the same. I thought it was <br clear="none">> close but didn't worry about it until tonight. Argh!<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I thought about swapping the base plates, but the 3310 has larger <br clear="none">> bores; that wouldn't work.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I thought about swapping throttle shafts, but the screws in the <br clear="none">> throttle plates are staked and it's too much work to swap; that <br clear="none">> wouldn't work.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> As it turned out, the funky (I actually think it's GM) lever on the <br clear="none">> primaries had a nice hole in just about the right spot where the <br clear="none">> linkage needs to hook up. And it just so happened that I had a spare <br clear="none">> ball post that I could mount there. Nearly perfect! We'll check the <br clear="none">> entire throttle throw once we have it mounted on the car.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> However, when I went to swap the electric throttle positioner which <br clear="none">> holds the idle when the car is running and allows the throttle plates <br clear="none">> to -completely- close when the ignition is switched off, I found the <br clear="none">> accelerator pump mechanism is larger and in-the-way of mounting the <br clear="none">> electric positioner. Argh!<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Well, I -could- swap the pump lever from my existing carb but it's got <br clear="none">> a lighter spring assembly and I'm not sure it would be calibrated <br clear="none">> correctly (spring-tension-wise). And I don't -really- need the <br clear="none">> electric positioner if I dial the idle in correctly, so let's just <br clear="none">> leave it off<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Well, wouldn't you know... that leaves me a 12V source that's only ON <br clear="none">> when the ignition is ON. Now where could I possibly use that? OH! I <br clear="none">> know.... how about the electric choke? Yea, that'll work.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> All that's left is to mount the fuel lines, do a final adjust on the <br clear="none">> floats and hit the road. But before I get that far I have a couple <br clear="none">> more parts to get.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The supply line on the car is a 5/16" metal tube, which means I need a <br clear="none">> 5/16" hose barb fitting to 3/8" NPT fitting to the supply line on the <br clear="none">> carb. I can pick one up at Napa tomorrow. The ported vacuum on my <br clear="none">> present Holley is the small size, same as the vacuum advance on the <br clear="none">> distributor. The ported on this 3310 is about twice the size so I <br clear="none">> need to get a reducer and some hose. I'm currently running the dual <br clear="none">> diaphragm vacuum advance, and no it's not necessarily been dialed in <br clear="none">> properly. I really need someone with a distributor machine, or I need <br clear="none">> to cough up the money for a whizbang electronic distributor with <br clear="none">> computer controlled advance/retard. But you know... if I go that far <br clear="none">> I might as well buy a fuel injection system that can take advantage of <br clear="none">> that. <sigh><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Everything else seems to be alright. OH, one last thing.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I sighted in the level on the intake pad, it' has a slight forward <br clear="none">> tilt; that's expected on the Pantera. Some time ago I purchased a <br clear="none">> "wedge-plate" to try and level it up. When I test fit it tonight and <br clear="none">> checked level, it had about twice as much tilt to the rear as the <br clear="none">> manifold did to the front without the wedge. So I'm not going to put <br clear="none">> the wedge on. What I really need is a wedge at about half the angle <br clear="none">> this one is.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> My thoughts are to set final float level on the bench by rigging the <br clear="none">> base to be at about the same angle as the intake on the car, then <br clear="none">> priming the fuel bowls manually and adjusting the floats via the sight <br clear="none">> holes. Since the needle and seats are at the far ends of the fuel <br clear="none">> bowls and the floats nearer the meter blocks, I think I need to set <br clear="none">> the front (primary) to be just a touch high, and the rear to be just a <br clear="none">> touch low. That should give me approximately the same amount of fuel <br clear="none">> in each. Any thoughts from other experts?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Alright, enough of a tome for tonight, more tomorrow.<br clear="none">> Asa Jay<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br clear="none">> & Shelley Marie<br clear="none">> Spokane, WA<br clear="none">> ******************************<br clear="none">> <a href="http://www.racingagainstautism.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://www.racingagainstautism.com</a><br clear="none">> <a href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://www.teampanteraracing.com</a><br clear="none">> <a href="http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">TPR mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>