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Old 06-17-2025, 05:36 PM
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You just missed an all out brawl of a thread over P350s lol.

I agree with others, I would pick up a standard pontiac intake over that Torker 1. Torker IIs have their supporters, but I don't know if I've ever heard anyone go to bat for the first version. I also don't like edelbrock carbs, but plenty of others do.

Other than swapping the intake, I would run it if it runs. If you decide you need more grunt later, build a bigger engine. But do it on the side while you have a running driving car.

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I would loop the purple wirs to fire it up. You fix that later.
We want to here it run baby. LOL

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Old 06-18-2025, 12:31 PM
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I would loop the purple wirs to fire it up. You fix that later.
We want to here it run baby. LOL

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I'm doing this tonight, idk how long it's been since this thing has been ran..I've worked on it everyday since memorial day

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Old 07-19-2025, 01:15 AM
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So I got to look under the valley pan, you can see what it looked like..I began to remove each rocker and came to realize the washers under the nuts were froze solid to the bottle neck shafts so bad I couldn't physically remove the rockers..I can imagine that would cause some sort of issue, I went on to remove each push rod and lifter and have seen no wear on either the lifters or the cam lobes although I did discover two more slightly bent push rods that were also under the few "frozen" rocker washers I found but again no visual sign of worn out anything..could it have just been the frozen washers under the nuts?
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Awesome thanks for the info guys..I'm pretty sure there was only one flasher on the fuse box, I'll have to do a full sweep of the wiring and other things you've mentioned aswell

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