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Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡

Posted By: pjc360

Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 06:50 PM

As many of you already know I’ve been battling a nasty missfire on my 300hp crate 360 magnum for months now and I can’t for the life of me figurenout what’s causing it.
Engine is low mileage, 30k miles, my problem cylinders appear to be cylinder 6 and cylinder 8.
Cylinder 6 is almost always carbon fouled, with what looks like dry sooty residue like what you’d see on the inside of a chimney.
I get 155 psi of cranking compression on all 8 cylinders with engine warm and carburetor wide open.
I thought it was ignition at first, ive put a brand new firecore 50 electronic vacuum advance distributor in it, new cap and rotor, new Taylor plug wires, new ngk bkr5e plugs.
New MSD Digital 6 ignition box, coil wires and trigger wires routed on opposite sides of the truck.
Pick up coil wiring is the correct polarity, I’ve triple checked that.
Timing is 18 initial and 34 total all in at 2500 rpm.
I’ve verified the accuracy of my balancer with a piston stop, it’s dead on.
I’ve checked timing with two different lights, both are the same.
I’m running a brand new crane cams lx91 e-core coil.
I’be pulled the valve cover on passenger side, rocker arms and valve springs and push rods appear to be fine, nothing is loose or broken.
I’ve watched the valve train with engine idling, everything looks normal.
I’m at a complete loss here.
The missfiring starts around 2400-2500 rpm in every gear, even in nuetral.
I can get it to clear up a tad bit on the highway if I stand on it pretty hard and then back off a little bit I think that’s because the plug in cylinder 6 gets cleaned off a little bit and starts firing better? Idk why it will clear up a little sometimes when you poor the coals to it.
Carburetor is a brand new Quickfuel super street series 680cfm vacuum secondary carb.
Intake is the Mopar Dual plane M1.
Could this be a fuel issue? Is it getting too much fuel and missfiring because of it?
Below 2500 rpm it runs super good and feels completely fine.
It isles nice and has 20hg of vacuum at idle.
If this is a fuel issue, why is it only affecting cylinder 6 mainly and sometimes cylinder 8?
I mean I believe it could be a fuel issue at this point, I just don’t understand why only 6 and sometimes 8 are being affected.
I don’t think my carb settings are all that crazy rich ether.
I live in Montana so I’m 3500 feet above sea level.
I’m running 65 main jets and 75 secondary jets, I’m running .031 idle feed restrictors and .065 idle air bleeds, I’m running .033 high speed air bleeds, a 9.5hg power valve with .049 pvcr’s.
I have the floats set at the bottom of the sight glasses, all 4 idle mixture screws are about 3/4- 1 full turn out from seated.
I get 6 psi of fuel pressure from my mechanical fuel pump.
I’m just at a loss here and have no idea what’s going on or how to pin point what’s going on.
Should I step down a couple notches on the idle feed restrictors and step down on the jetting a little bit and see what happens?
Last night I lowered my floats from being half way up the sight glasses to the bottom and that appeared to slightly make it a little better but it’s still missing at those rpm’s.
Posted By: stumpy

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 07:03 PM

Are you sure the intake is sealed tight?
Posted By: 71birdJ68

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 07:04 PM

Just a shot in the dark here, but do you have a regular distributor you could try? You have a lot of china made stuff there.
Posted By: GODSCOUNTRY340

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 08:07 PM

You've covered just about everything except the valve seals. Pop the valve springs off number six and replace both intake and exhaust valve seals. While you have the springs off wiggle the valve stems and see if there's too much play there. They should move just enough to feel, if there is a lot of side movement in them that's your problem.
Posted By: PurpleBeeper

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 08:29 PM

Hmmm... these are good things to check, but an intake leak would either suck oil (oily plugs) or air (white plugs). Valve stem seal/guide would suck oil (oily plugs). Chimney soot sounds rich for sure.

Too much fuel or too little air.....EGR problem? "Maybe" lean the carb out a little bit...maybe #6/#8 are just more prone to showing a rich condition? Really, really dirty air filter? Cam not degreed & again #6/#8 are more prone to the rich issue.

I'm grasping at straws here obviously. If you've done all the ignition stuff, then the fuel delivery system is the next place to look.
Posted By: justinp61

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 08:43 PM

Set the rev limiter on you Digital 6 to 0. My 408 had a problem with a pop on the hit and immediately after gear changes at the drag strip, it wouldn't do it on the street. I changed plugs, wires, distributor pick up, coil, valve springs and was in the carb several times. Finally at the suggestion of a member here I reset the limiter on my Digital 6 to 0 and the pop went away. The limiter was set at 7200 and I was shifting at 6400, it would pop even with the limiter set at 9900.

If that doesn't help buy/borrow a wide band O2 meter and get the carb dialed in. It sounds like it could be going lean causing the misfire.
Posted By: krautrock

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 09:43 PM

Originally Posted By justinp61

If that doesn't help buy/borrow a wide band O2 meter and get the carb dialed in. It sounds like it could be going lean causing the misfire.


same thing i've been thinking.

the carb is already a couple steps lean on jetting from baseline.
the transition is pretty rich too. sounds like the miss is where the mains start to come in.

i would put some 70 jets in and go drive it.
Posted By: pjc360

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 09:52 PM

It’s not missfiring cause it’s lean, it’s missfiring because it’s rich.
Number 6 plug indicates too much fuel every time I pull it out.
I’ve tried different ignition boxes thinking that was the issue.
I was running a crane cams hi-6 cd box and I thought maybe there was an issue with it.
So I get this msd box and it’s still missing.
So obviously the crane box wasn’t the issue, so now I have two cd ignition boxes which isn't a bad thing anyways in case something happens to one or the other.
The plugs are not oil fouled, so I can rule out valve seals and valve guides.
Every time my plugs foul out it’s fuel not oil.
No vacuum leaks, no egr set up.
This is your basic set up with an intake and carb and distributor.
No emission stuff at all.
I’m going to try leaning everything out next, I’ll drop the idle feed restrictors a little and drop the main jet a little and see what happens.
At this point i don’t know where else to look besides the carburetor tune.
Every last piece to the ignition is brand new, timing is dialed inn perfectly.
Compression is 155psi across the board.
Rocker arms and push rods are all tight and everything seems to be functioning properly when I pulled the valve cover on passenger side and let the engine idle while I watched everything.
I was just wondering if anybody here has seen a rich condition cause a missfire at a certain rpm.
Any missfires resulting in a poor carburetor tune have always been lean with the ones I’ve seen, I’ve never seen a rich condition cause a missfire like this.
So for now I’m thinking carburetor tune, cause I’m just not seeing any signs to point towards ignition or mechanical failure in the valve train.
Posted By: doctor_mopar

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/05/18 10:24 PM

With all you say, I am thinking it must be a problem/ defect with the carb going rich on the secondary venturi that is on the side that is nearest feeding 6 and 8 . If you have a dual plane intake , just follow the runners. I am just throwing it out there where I would be looking at this point !
Posted By: DAYCLONA

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 12:10 AM

New to your issues your having, but have to ask, have you confirmed the firing order 100%....
Posted By: 500ciDuster

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 02:32 AM

I'll second Dayclonas idea, had a beater years ago that had 2 switched around and it didn't run to bad and I just figured it had burt vaves but figured I'd check and found that 2 be the problem. What plugs are you running?
Posted By: CSK

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 04:51 AM

weak valve springs, they cant keep up with rpm
Posted By: GODSCOUNTRY340

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 05:11 AM

If you're sure it's rich try a different carb and see if it clears up. Even though that is a new carb it could be defective internally causing it to be rich in those two cylinders.
Posted By: justinp61

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 06:37 AM

Buy or borrow a wide band.
Posted By: rhad

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 06:50 AM

just throwing out a wild idea,some kind of casting problem with the intake causing the cylinders next to each other to misfire/run rich,like maybe not enough air because of a internal restriction,yeah that probably not it,but it sounds like the normal stuff aint it so the oddball thing might be!
Posted By: dart4forte

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 05:40 PM

Originally Posted By justinp61
Set the rev limiter on you Digital 6 to 0. My 408 had a problem with a pop on the hit and immediately after gear changes at the drag strip, it wouldn't do it on the street. I changed plugs, wires, distributor pick up, coil, valve springs and was in the carb several times. Finally at the suggestion of a member here I reset the limiter on my Digital 6 to 0 and the pop went away. The limiter was set at 7200 and I was shifting at 6400, it would pop even with the limiter set at 9900.

If that doesn't help buy/borrow a wide band O2 meter and get the carb dialed in. It sounds like it could be going lean causing the misfire.



iagree

Th rev limiter ha a been a problem on some of the digital boxes. You may want to change out the box.
Posted By: doctor_mopar

Re: Can’t find cause of Missfire 😡😡 - 03/06/18 06:00 PM

Dayclona really has a very likely answer there ! Even though I have known the firing order by memory since I was 12 years old, I have mixed up two plug wires like that, and the car ran a lot like that ! Sure deserves a double check !
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