no RPM

I thought of that as well but then I'd have to modify headers the next time I needed them.....doing the frame opens the door for off the shelf stuff.

 

Any time you cut into a frame, you will make it weaker. You have a lot of weight there, both in the car and the engine. Just a thought.

 

true but I will box it with steel plate.....a little thicker than stock and ya there is a lot of weight up front.....

 

Did you degree the cam?

 

Yes it was...

I'm stumpped!!!

 

well I think I might have found my problem.........I think it might be my hole MSD ignition......a buddy of mine went through the same problem the car would fall flat on it's face at 4000rpm..........swapped it all to Mallory and Bang!!!!!! everything worked well........ I'm looking for a Mallory distributor Unilite and take it from there see what happens.....

 

bad advise, Mallory is even worse. MSD is king for a reason.
Won't find one of their boxes on the dash of the top pro race cars.


buy summit brand stuff if you need to go cheap, its all Mallory stuff with a summit sticker on it.

This is what Dave Ray says about Mallory

Put each out your index fingers at the corners of your eyes and press down, then hook your pinkies into the corner of your mouth, then pull all 4 apart while you say " Mallory me Chinese’s "

 

lmfao!!!! maybe but, I was running Mallory in my race car for years and never had a problem!!!! stand alone unilite....no fancy boxes or such.....just a plain unilite car ran stong till 8000rpm not a miss or hickup....gotta try something this is freaking me out and frustrating to the point of tearing it apart and scrapping it all!!!!!

 

Well you still must shop smart, there is no need for a fancy Dizzy by anyone, a stock rebuilt dizzy and a MSD box is all you needs.

Folks go over board on what's needed.

 

THAT'S an understatement!

 

so true not planning on going over board.....just trying to figure this thing out...... lucky for me I still have a lot of my race stuff left over.....that's how I built the engine....left over race stuff......some planning and there you have it......I have my original Mallory......MSD stuff came from a car that I purchased a few years ago......was an 85 GT mustang with a 351 Cleveland.....had I known what I was getting myself into I would never have bought it........heading to work one morning at 4am I was merging onto the highway not crazy just normal merging.......the engine just scattered......never had a chance to take it to the track.....never had a chance to really beat on the car.....Guy I had picked it up from told me a bag of crap about the car.......was a mechanical roller high duration cam.....they had set it up as a hydraulic.....bent all the pushrods and put a valve through the piston and a rod out the side of the block.....so I stripped it kept all the good stuff......I thought anyway......MSD stuff came from that car..... put in a 5L 5spd and sold it off........I was pissed I never had the chance to really drive it...... I'm a bit of a cleveland horder....lol.....have all kinds of stuff put aside.

 

I've had the factory double wall headpipe collapse internally and almost took the whole engine apart before I figured that one out. Try running with just the manifolds and no exhaust system at all.

 

Hmmmmmmm first for everything

Though rubber brake hoses tend to do that also, will look fine on the out side but internaly its all messed up, having you chase your tail as to why the brakes act funny.

 

Interesting thought........but I think I found my problem........looks like the isolator for the fuel pressure gadge is reading off......in the car it sits at 7-8 psi but the gadge in the engine bay starts to drop off drastically......so I think I'm starving the engine as it loads up.......almost acting as a rev limiter.........I'm changing to 2 mallory 140's and see what happens.......don't have much time till snow so I hope I can get it done soon........