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Originally Posted by Bentwheelbob
Well, the Gold Car is back on the road. There are still a few issues to button up, but we got it off the lift and back on the asphalt after 6.5 months of surgery. The EFE/heat riser doesn't like the choppy vacuum from the Stump Puller cam and rattles like a cheap pair of roller skates and will need fixed, there seems to be a small exhaust leak that needs tracked down, and the car is running a little hot so a 160 degree thermostat is going in to see what benefit it provides. Other than that, things are good. The car has gobs of power and runs nice. We were worried that you couldn't get it to go down the road straight after replacing everything in the front end, but it's not that bad. Definitely will be able to drive it to the alignment shop next week.
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I have the same cam in my GTO's 462 and it idles smoothly with steady vacuum once warmed up…what type of compression do you have? Mine also ran really cool from day 1…I wonder if you need more timing and/or a richer mix? Oh, I also think I read in an earlier post that you're running valve cover spacers…was that necessary because your valve covers have drippers?