Recent content by Duke5A

What kind of lines are running? PTFE line and Fragola Real Street fittings are what you want. Pricey, but excellent stuff. Makes for great power steering lines too. Real easy to put together.

That's an impressive cobbled together setup. You'd have fun tuning something like a Sniper. If you swap for a 42RH transmission and increase the gear ratio just enough to maintain the same final drive ratio with OD your city mileage will improve markedly while getting the same highway. I like...

You're going to like that setup. Be sure to tweak the spark map on a computer to dial in your vacuum advance curve.

It was a small local high school auto shop get-together too and this guy pulls in a few minutes behind us with that midnight blue coupe. It's a survivor car with an original 20k on the odometer. It's wild because I could spend all day on Woodward and not see another M and here were are with...

That looks absolutely amazing.

What's wild is this is considered skinny by today's standards.

If body is super nice, paint and everything I've seen these cars fetch $8500. Put it up for sale high. You can always lower the price, but you can't raise it after it's gone.

If this is your problem you could attempt redo the factory spot welds. We had a member here replace the entire cross member with a piece of box tube with flat stock on the ends. The tube was angled and bushed to accept the top shock bolts at the correct angle. That's the best way, but it's a...

I've seen the upper shock mount that spans between the frame rails come lose before. Get the car in the air, support it the back with stands under the frame rails so the axle and springs are unloaded. Then start trying to move things around. Check the axle for side-to-side play and get a hand...

RPM Air Gap has the same thermostat placement as the RPM Performer. Both will interfere with factory A/C compressor mounts.

Regardless, the op's symptoms sound very close to vapor lock. When I was a kid kinking that side line coming off of the filter fixed a horrible vapor locking condition and got me home. He should try this at least to aid in troubleshooting.

It clears on Dad's car. I can't remember if he is using a drop base air cleaner, but it does clear.

It could still be a fueling issue. Do you have a fuel filter with the side outlet for the return line? If so, pinch kink that line in half, secure it with a ziptie and take it for a drive.

Look at it this way: it's the perfect excuse to get the intake blasted and cleaned. :)

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that intake needs to come off now. If I had to guess that fastener was over tightened to begin with and had already started to twist apart when the motor was new.