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If you can find one, a Holley model 4011 is an excellent spreadbore carburetor for just about any Mopar V8, I ran one on my 318 and it had extremely good cold manners, response, power, and highway fuel economy compared to the original crappy thermoquad. I'm running the same carb on a 400 HP now...

According to my 1981 parts manual, the E46 engine was essentially a run of the mill 318 with a 4 bbl intake on it. The E45 had a 2 bbl intake with some heavy duty features like double row timing chain. The E48 got all the heavy duty high performance stuff, special cam, special heads, timing...

I've seen this problem before. Some of the Edelbrock performer dual plane intakes have an inner bolt hole drilled all the way through into the runners, and if you have the bolts in the outer holes of the AVS2 the inner bolt hole is a big vacuum leak to one side of the intake, which will send...

I'd really like to get the wipers working on my Gran Fury so I can drive it without worrying about the weather, but the wiper blades are some obscure trico thing that I don't think can be easily replaced. It looks like it requires inserts. I've got some inserts for it but they're old and...

The fuel gauge has been acting up in my gran fury, it will stop working for a while and I took the gauge bezel off and wiggle it around and it goes to working again. Recently it stopped working altogether, I measured the continuity and there is none. I ordered a cluster out of a Newport on eBay...

I've never seen corrosion that bad in the cooling system, even from cars that have sat many decades. My dad was big on keeping things preserved so he used very strong mixes of antifreeze to keep blocks from cracking and rusting. I guess being in Arizona the owner didn't use antifreeze but put...

I repaired mine with some cheap stuff I found on Amazon. As long as you can salvage some of your pipe, like the tailpipe and the part coming off behind the catalyst at the manifold like mine, usually those parts don't rust out as fast as the muffler and cat and pipe immediately around it, the...

I rebuilt the carburetor for the first time since it left the factory and found some very interesting things. The power valve that screws into well of the bowl had backed completely out of the hole and was laying over off the plunger, so I made a custom slotted screwdriver to go around the rod...

Ugh, a new york car, and an early model f body too. Even the engine is rusted, that's why I don't worry about a little valve cover leak, keeps the motor preserved. My grandpa was a huge fan of the slant six f bodies, he had a fleet of them he ran the mail with from 77 until the mid 90s. He...

Yeah, that's the same setup I have. I just put it back together like that where it had been taken apart. The heat riser spring broke which is why the carb freezes so easily. Anyway that's not what's causing the problem, I unhooked the pipe and it's still glowing. I then unhooked the air pump...

I got home tonight and opened my hood to check on the engine and the entire engine bay was bathed in glowing red light from the pre-catalyst thing under the exhaust manifold. The actual catalytic converter itself has been removed but I left the pre-cat or whatever it is in place. For some reason...

That one looks really good internally. Mine was rusted up where water leaked through the bondo they put in the roof hole for the siren wires, but a brass brush and some vinegar cleaned it up and it still works. I'd say put some super glue on it and call it good.

I took the catalytic converter off when the muffler fell off, I checked my odometer against Google maps gps on a 119 mile trip and it measured 124 miles so it's not terribly far off with my slightly shorter tires. I just replaced the choke pulloff a few months ago and it comes off fine. I...

The problems are getting worse, my mileage is dropping to as low as 7 mpg now. I've noticed a trend though. Every time I fill up, I seem to be missing 2.5 to 3 gallons of gas, since if it took that much less to fill it up, the mileage would be around what it usually is. The shorter distance I...

Massachusetts is a long drive for some seats, it would be fun but it would probably make more economical sense to put the volare seats I already have in it and order some blue carpet to match. But white and tan would look so much better than blue and tan, he also has some good 2 door interior...

Damn, it's for front buckets. I'll probably never find upholstery for my cheap tan bench seats that have been reduced to rags. Hmm, I've got a blue bench seat in my 77 volare parts car that's less worn but it would look terribly out of place. He's got some white bucket seats that might look good...

Apparently that issue was fixed by 1980 because my Aspen was parked outside under the same pine trees for 43 years and it didn't rust at all, the metal is immaculate compared to other 70s mopars. Of course it was regularly driven during that time and cleaned and given basic maintenance too. I...

I wish it was more popular, it's cool to have an entire site dedicated to FMJ stuff so we can share obscure info about these cars to keep them running and find people with arcane knowledge and parts. Honestly in my opinion the fmjs are the ultimate refinement of the rwd mopars, they had most of...

The original left side leaf spring on my Aspen had about fully de-arched and was making the ride height uneven, so I put some new springs on it. I went with these: 1976 - 1990 Chrslyer, Dodge, Plymouth rear leaf spring, 5 leaf The car is remarkably well preserved underneath, I was able to reuse...

You sure your diplomat wasn't a cop car? Mine has weird holes and stuff all over it for several antennas, light bars, pushbar, etc, including in the roof. The NCHP had some sloppy car flippers, they didn't weld the holes up, they put bondo on them and sent it, now it's flaking off. I just...

I'm having more problems. This time I went on a trip and the car ran out of gas, I thought I had plenty, I filled the tank up a few weeks ago and had only driven the car about 100 miles, and about 60 miles into the trip it died, had to catch a ride to fill up a can. The gauge is stuck on 1/4...

Man that's blasphemy, you should keep the slant 6 in it. They make such nice drivers. Even with the 318 I think the easiest solution here is just to find an FMJ 8.25, unless you're looking for a mega hot rod, in that case in order to put a B body rear end in there you're going to have to cut the...

I ran short pieces of heater hose out of the firewall to take up the space and spliced them into the main heater hoses. I put the heater box and coolant back in and ran the car until the thermostat opened and got the core hot, no apparent leaks, so it appears that trick did it. Time will tell if...

Drats, I took the dash apart and removed the old heater core, bent the pipes a little on the new one and cut the case out for them to go through and it fits in place, but the pipes don't quite stick far enough out of the firewall to get a hose on. Bending them into place must've shortened them...

I was experimenting to see if it affects the mileage, and it does. Even my stock slant 6 is getting 3-4 mpg better on premium than regular, which does sound like a lot but the extra cost more or less balances out the gain. The best thing to buy is ethanol free gas, regardless of octane, which...