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Originally Posted by chuckies76ta
Like mentioned in one of the post. (#49) Slow down.
Focus on getting the cam degreed and do some turning and setup your timing from there.
Leave your heads and intake alone. You can try the 800 cfm Q-jet see how it works. Electric chokes work fine for what your doing. The only issue I ever had with a Q-jet was keeping the fuel bowl full at higher rpm, but that was in my fuel system delivery.
Down the road you can build yourself another engine with more H/P and performance if that's what you want. There are lots of smart folks on this forum who can help guide you in a future build.
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Thanks. I went to my local shop yesterday and chatted about some things. His train of thought was that my compression may be lower than what I had previously thought (he thinks it may be closer to 9:1 or even upper 8's) which would adversely affect the cam I have that he feels would benefit from a higher compression above 10:1. His suggestion was that we can leave the cam where it is, I can install heads (he wants me to drop to 72cc Eheads that he will go through and change the springs on and get me near 11:1), and cleanup my intake and 750cfm carb (said it looks like my accelerator pump is leaking gas). He said this should raise my compression, add about 50-80 horsepower and he can then time and curve everything for me on his equipment. He personally did not like the #96 heads, he also said that all the Kauffmans he has flow tested have not reached advertised numbers, which is why he is wanting me to go with the Edelbrock. We ended up chatting for several hours while he showed me all of his work, great guy.